Preparing a 20th anniversary edition of my first book helped me realize that environmentalism and feminism both began as reasonable social movements that later turned extremist and dogmatic.
Twenty years ago Penguin Canada published my first book. The Princess at the Window is a critique of feminism – a movement that began with great intentions and then veered sharply off the rails.
It starts with a fairy tale about a princess tethered to a particular window in the castle. Her mind is small and narrow. She considers her own perspective to be the one true reality. Adamant that everyone else is mistaken, she learns nothing.
I’ve spent the past few months resurrecting The Princess at the Window. Out of print for 15 years, and published before e-books existed, it was a big job that included scanning-in a physical copy and inserting hyperlinks into 500 footnotes. While re-visiting this material…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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