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When Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses in 1989, he couldn’t have foreseen the firestorm his tale would unleash. If he could have seen ahead a bit, he would have anticipated the coming fatwa, the denouncements throughout Islamic media and his own castigation as a faithless apostate. Many of us would like to think he […] Continue reading…

I write on liberty, on survival and sometimes on fish too. This article concerns all three, but I’m going to start with fish. Several years ago, I walked through the native eastern range of the brook trout, sought out this fish in the hills and hollows of Appalachia and wrote a book on my travels […] Continue reading…

Not all that seems like environmentalism really is. Not all the cries for environmental intervention stem from love of the earth. And not all the people wearing green on their sleeves are as pure of motive as they’d like you to think. I believe all of the above to be true but beyond my own […] Continue reading…

Cross-posted from my new site at woodrisebooks.com. It’s a site meant to accompany the four-volume Woodrise series that will be forthcoming over the next four years. Are you paying attention to global warming now? For more than thirty years the left has warned that we must all pay attention to global warming, or to climate […] Continue reading…

It hasn’t taken the left, the globalists, the elites long to make life worse for all of us. They’ve been finding ways to do this for quite a while, but escalated their assaults on everything we hold dear as Americans in 2020. The COVID-19 coronavirus ushered in an era of unprecedented control of most aspects […] Continue reading…

Americans want to fight back against the ongoing socialist takeover of their homeland but feel powerless. The public schools most of us are forced to pay for are utterly overrun by the left. Big banking is now instrumental in promotion of left-wing social goals. Our government seems more and more unresponsive to the will of […] Continue reading…