I sometimes wonder whether the advent of global warming might revive the climatological determinism of Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron of of Montesquieu, popularly known as the Enlightenment philosophe Montesquieu. Here in the global North, our ideas about governance seem to get shakier as the planet grows hotter, and there’s a cyclical aspect as well. Notions that take hold in the months of July and August are apt to look silly come September. The current presumed centrality of the Epstein