The general goal of my Introduction to Political Studies class is for students to develop the capacity to think critically and insightfully about political reality. Thus, they…
After considering the “big picture” questions about politics, my first-year students turn to the study of Canadian politics (in the U. S., this subfield would get covered…
Introduction The “End of History,” as the Marxist philosopher Alexandre Kojève argued, signified the triumph of rational atheism in which man makes himself God and abolishes the…
I. Introduction The dust has finally settled following the 2015 federal election. A new government has been sworn in. Outgoing Parliamentarians have departed. A leadership race to…
"Nations do not make myths. Myths make nations." - F.W.J. Schelling Philosophie der Offenbarung I. Introduction: The Electoral Expression of Regionalism[1] Both the formal institutions of…
Introduction Cold War anti-communism played a significant role in Canadian provincial, as well as federal, politics and women members of the provincial branches of the Social Credit…
Introduction Delivering the Presidential Address to the Canadian Historical Association in 1946, Frank Underhill lamented sorry state of Canadian intellectual contributions to the analysis of the “modern…
Introduction It seems a very propitious moment to think about Canadian and Southern history in conjunction given the recent and more or less concurrent bicentennial of the…
"The wisdom of Plato’s maxim holds good: “We should never choose any one as a guardian of the laws who does not exult in virtue.” – Egerton…
The purpose of this article is to shed some light on a segment of Canadian intellectual history, in particular the changing theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of…
In this month, we will examine the history, culture, philosophy, and politics of Canada. Some of our past features about Canada are below. Tom Bateman's "The…
The 31st Annual Convention of the Alberta Social Credit Women’s Auxiliaries (SCWA) was held at the Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton, Northern Alberta, Canada, on December 3, 1968.…
Suddenly There! Thirty Years of Killing Time Around Southern Alberta, 1985-2018. Barry Cooper and Ted Morton. Second Edition. Self-Published. Plato, in his own voice, describes the…
At the Centre of Government: The Prime Minister and the Limits of Political Power. Ian Brodie. Montréal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Having lived both vita contemplativa…
Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies. David Edward Tabachnick and Leah Bradshaw, eds., Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Multiculturalism is among the ambivalences of our…
