Byron Kennard is a proud 84-year-old gay man who’s been “out” since the end of World War II (when he was eight). Kennard is also a Burkean conservative, a left-wing community organizer, a high-brow historian, and a low-brow comedy writer. — He is the author of: You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism, a history of the environmental movement. In it, he advocates the use of conservative methods to achieve radical ecological goals. (Amazon, 2020) — and — How to Trick People into Doing the Right Thing, a whimsical, ironic history of political reform that acknowledges and salutes the use of deviousness by astute leaders to achieve social progress. (Amazon, 2020)