

The Shape of Water is not a good movie
Professional critics, in their widespread acclaim for what is, at best, a mediocre movie, have committed a dereliction of duty. The...
Ken Ilgunas
Feb 28, 2018
My first book review
Ilgunas returns with a heavily researched, passionate argument about the need for America to emulate many other countries and allow its...
Ken Ilgunas
Feb 12, 2018


The relevance of Henry David Thoreau
[Daniel Vollaro, a professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, is interviewing subjects for a book he’s writing about Thoreau’s impact on 21st...
Ken Ilgunas
Feb 5, 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 29, 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 22, 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 15, 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 8, 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...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 1, 2018