Defending tradition, realism, and political virtue 🇺🇸

Pens and Poison is the literary project of author Liza Libes. Enter a world of literary analyses, cultural critiques, and other hot takes.

Reading, writing, sharing.

Based interventions on philosophy, culture, economy, law, theology and the postliberal order.

Substack by a former two time US Senate Candidate. She contemplates politics with an engineering lens and is "working the problem" of progressive politics winning in rural America.