COVID: A Lingering Chill for Liberty
Conservative America just wanted COVID and all that came with it to be gone. Americans just wanted to get back to their lives—to their families,…
Book Review: “Eco-Sanity” by Joe Bast et al.
In 1994, environmentalism stood at a crossroads. The movement as a whole could fit itself to the American model of free enterprise, property rights and…
Flaco the Free Bird
Cross-posted from Cedric’s new site at woodrisebooks.com. It’s a site meant to accompany his four-volume Woodrise series that will be forthcoming over the next few years. Here’s one…
Environmental Apostates
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…
Liberty As Survival
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…
Real Environmentalism
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…
Global Warming Matters
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…
Build Back Better
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…
Divest and Decouple
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…
Realms of the Unknowable: The Power Bases of the Left
Years ago, I heard ecologist Dr. Patrick Moore characterize the modus operandi of modern environmentalists exquisitely. He remarked that they remain out of reach of…
Thank A Trucker
What does it take to be heard by our leaders nowadays? In Europe people have been in the streets since lockdowns were first imposed (though,…
Fear Not
Cross-posted from my nature blog at thedyingfish.com. I spent last year walking. If I had to give a very short account of my time that…
The Most I Could Do
December 28, 2021 It’s been an incredible year. A year ago, I had no idea I was about to walk across the continent. But we’ve…
The Long March: Looking Behind, Looking Ahead
November 27, 2021 There’s a lot to update everyone on at this strange juncture of The Long March of Liberty; things are afoot that were…
Challenge Lies
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire The United States is a troubled nation currently; no one doubts that.…
Liberty Versus Socialism, Part 2
Last time around in Part 1, I laid out one of my primary arguments against socialism and one of the primary reasons that we need…
Liberty Versus Socialism, Part 1
I’ve often claimed that I stand for liberty and against socialism because it’s simply what I want. A freer society is the kind I want…
The Arid West Fades Into an Arable Midwest
August 24, 2021 I hadn’t seen a magpie for days. It dawned on me as I sat at Baker, Montana, several weeks ago and this…