Scott Holleran

Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Ayn Rand and literary scholar Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss. Watch him dance in his movie debut—the first film inspired by his fiction writing—in Henry Dances. Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at  ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com

After Years of Appeasement, America Acts Morally Against Iran

Donald Trump is the first American president to militarily counterstrike an enemy explicitly on the principle of saving American lives.

An Elegy for Elian Gonzalez

It finally happened: Elian Gonzalez has been reunited with his father. The President, the Attorney General, Congress, the media and a majority of the American people got the reunion they wanted at 5 a.m. last Saturday morning--at the point of a gun. For all the talk...

Elian Gonzalez’s Life is His Own; Make Him a U.S. Citizen

Elian Gonzalez's story continues to unfold like an opera: The daring escape from Cuba, the treacherous sea storm, and his mother's heroic struggle to fasten the 6-year-old to an inner tube before she drowned. As a brutal snowstorm brought the congressional quest for...

The History of HMOs

The new year begins as employees begin a process called open enrollment--when many employees designate a health plan through their employer. Unfortunately, most are forced to enroll in a managed care plan, i.e., an HMO or PPO. That's right: force actually lies at the...

Why the New York Times is Wrong on MSAs and Health Reform

The following is a letter sent by writer Scott Holleran of Glendale, California to the New York Times. Your Oct. 7, 1999 editorial, "The Fight for Patients' Rights," is insulting to the reader's intelligence. By claiming that House Republicans' attempts to expand...

Waiting for Fidel

BOOK REVIEW: WAITING FOR FIDEL By Christopher Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $13) The Pope's visit to Cuba and Fidel Castro's subsequent release of political prisoners this week are a reminder that the Communist dictator still has a grip on Cuba's fate. Christopher Hunt's...

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