Homestead is real. And by “Homestead,” I mean the sprawling, largely self-contained and -sustaining compound in the Rocky Mountains that inspired and informed the best-selling post-apocalyptic Black ...

I arrive early one Saturday evening in February for the South Florida preppers’ monthly meet-and-greet barbecue at Wiseman’s shop. An older man named Mr. Ike grills hamburgers in a parking space, ...

There are so, so, so, so many scenarios for the apocalypse. Natural disasters: fires, floods, tornadoes. And man-made: biochemical accidents, wars, mass shootings. The stereotype of a prepper—borne of ...