Ken Ilgunas

Professional critics, in their widespread acclaim for what is, at best, a mediocre movie, have committed a dereliction of duty. The thirteen award nominations are galling and further evidence that the world has gone mad. (Spoiler Alert.) This movie is not good because… 1. The monster character had no depth. A wild beast with a soft soul? How many times has that already been done? (King Kong, Beauty and the Beast, Terminator 2, basically all “bad boy” movies…) Can we not be a

Ilgunas returns with a heavily researched, passionate argument about the need for America to emulate many other countries and allow its citizens to roam across the land, public as well as private… Earnest, thoughtful, and alarming in places—an optimistic work that urges America toward a profound cultural shift. — Kirkus review of my book, This Land Is Our Land It’s such an odd thing, throwing your book out into the world. You may be content with the book, but there’s simply n

[Daniel Vollaro, a professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, is interviewing subjects for a book he’s writing about Thoreau’s impact on 21st Century American culture. Below I’ve listed his questions and my answers.] How did you become interested in Thoreau? I can’t remember when exactly I became interested in Thoreau. He wasn’t assigned in high school or college. I think I was coming across his name in other books I respected, like Into the Wild. In my early twenties I had this