Escaping the Madness: Two Hikes into the Wilderness 

It’s been a crazy few weeks after three years of drama cooked up by Big Medicine, Big Government, and aided and abetted by Big Media.

As a mental dip into a refreshing mountain stream, The Free Press published this essay written by Elias Wachtel, who, as an intern for the publication in 2020, escaped from the COVID and political hysteria by deciding to disappear for a while and hike the entire 2,193-mile length of the Appalachian Trail.

And if that puts you in the mood to read another escapist adventure, here’s my account of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2010.

“I Do Not Need to Defend Myself for Believing That Political Candidates Should Be Chosen Democratically” 

I was going to write something like this and publish it as a Special Issue. But Freddie deBoer, the smartest leftist in the country, beat me to it.