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Thanksgiving is by all accounts, a traditional American holiday. Just saying the word “Thanksgiving” evokes images of family, football and of course, food. You can almost taste the roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing and pumpkin pie. Ask anyone about the origins ...

“But what about these Tree-men, these giants as you might call them?” —Sam Gamgee in Lord of the Rings (1954) The First Fantasy Story Abimelech had slaughtered all of Gideon’s sons, all but one—a young man named Jotham.  When the ...

A few months ago, I wrote about the creeping advance of Sharia Law into the Western world. Responses to that article ran the gamut—everything from affirmation to claiming I didn’t know what I was talking about to suggesting I might be a child of Adolph Hitler. What sparked this discussion was my brief review of a series of speculative novels that imagine a world 500 years in the future ruled by something akin to Sharia Law.