From Project 2025 to Fahrenheit 451

It is the deadline for proposals for the disposal of various parts of the world-famous National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose personnel, equipment, and possibly even records will be scattered to the winds.

Russell Vought, right, is U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought is leading the official drive to break up or close down all the climate-linked scientific institutes that receive federal government money, writes Gwynne Dyer.White House photograph by Shealah Craighead

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 16, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—In 1953, American writer Ray Bradbury published a book entitled simply Fahrenheit 451. It was a novel about an American fireman in a not-too-distant future who realized that he was doing his job all wrong—because his job was to burn books, which wer...

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