Ken Ilgunas
Jan 29, 2018
This Land Is Our Land: Haters Welcome
I have a hunch that This Land Is Our Land will be viciously attacked. This hunch comes from two places: 1. A review of my book by...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 22, 2018
New article in Backpacker Magazine
My piece in Backpacker Magazine ran last week. It’s part of their “public lands” issue, so the article has as much to do with my Scottish...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 15, 2018
I don’t know if I can watch football anymore
During the Bills-Jaguars playoff game last week, two Bills players went down with head injuries. When I watched football years ago, an...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 8, 2018
Predicting the future with kindness
I’m not so arrogant to think that I’ll have a reader in the distant future. After all, getting read in the present is hard enough. Still,...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 5, 2018
The Year-in-Review Outline
I’ve been doing a “year in review” for the past five years or so. I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed writing them and how much I’ve...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 1, 2018
George Washington
I wanted this book to go on and on. I’m a nut for presidential biographies, and this is one of the best… Washington was a flawed man in...