Not One but Many: Restoring the Varieties of Canadian Conservatism
James Farney and David Rayside introduced their 2013 edited collection on Conservatism in Canada with the following words: “A volume of essays about conservatism is risky anywhere,…
James Farney and David Rayside introduced their 2013 edited collection on Conservatism in Canada with the following words: “A volume of essays about conservatism is risky anywhere,…
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. There is…
Pulling Punches When Forbes come to discuss the possibility of “diversity fatigue” he has to consider the effects of multiculturalism’s actual performance. “In a few cases there…
The Best Man In the course of his discussion, Forbes specifically takes up one of the central terms in the Heideggerian lexicon and that is - “authenticity.”…
The Brimelow Comparison: Heroes and Political Greatness For those who seek an education in the particular impact of postmodernism on the West in general, and on Canada…
Multiculturalism in Canada: Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Values. H.D. Forbes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Introduction This special book by H.D. Forbes appears in the…
Tomson Highway. Permanent Astonishment. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. 2021. The political and social landscape in Canada was knocked sideways in the spring of 2021 with the locating…
COVID-19. The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic. Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie. Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021. The Politics of a Pandemic Moral…
"Stephen Leacock was part of that curious and perhaps indigenously Canadian species which has been given the name of “Red Tory” - Alan Bowker "Many writers have…
God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's Case Against the American Revolution. Gregg L. Frazer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Twitter, one hardly needs…
I read an essay on Voegelinview questioning whether “conservatives” have the capacity to be “progressive.” [1] The essay made me wonder about the words we use in…
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…