Two new U.S. reviews, and a new date for NYC

I remain impressed and heartened with the love Americans show towards freedom of speech -- not just for themselves, but for people around the world. Including for Canadians. The very first order for Shakedown, months before the book officially launched, was 500 copies for a U.S. book club. That's amazing in itself.

This month, Reason Magazine, America's premier libertarian monthly, carried a whopping 4,000-word excerpt from Shakedown. That's a pretty big read, but they thought it was of sufficient importance for their U.S. readers to learn about the threat that the soft jihad of "lawfare" poses. It's not just a Canadian phenomenon -- the United Nations is attempting to criminalize criticism of Islam around the world. Think of the U.N. as one big Canadian human rights commission, with America in its sights.

Here's their excerpt, which is slightly modified from the book. (The book uses the phrase "f-word"; Reason, in a confident display of freedom of speech, spells that phrase out!).

And National Review, a U.S. magazine that I often regarded as the Western Standard's older brother, has posted an audio interview with me. You can hear it here. And here is the formal book review the magazine ran.

I have to postpone my trip to New York, which was scheduled for next week, until the fall. I'll be sure to publicize the details of it when the new date is firmed up -- I know some NYC readers were interested in attending. I can hardly wait to get down there. But I'm pleased that one of the media appearances that I was scheduled to do in-studio from Manhattan will proceed, with me appearing from a TV studio in Calgary. I'll give you more details on that soon. I'm pretty excited about it and, other than the very first media interview on my book tour (Canada AM), it's the only media appearance that I've actually felt nervous about -- partly because I'm such a fan of the show. More later on that.