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…
Political correctness is an instrument of oppression and scapegoating most prominently used by academic and political elites and enforced by mainstream news outlets. It is authoritarian, conformist…
Diversity as Self-Nullifying Culture, in the anthropological sense, is a combination of language and traditions involving values, ideas about education, cooking, family life and public life. Culture…
One the debates confronting liberal democracies is how to conceive of citizenship in an age of multiculturalism. Liberal political theorists regard citizenship as primary a legal entity…
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…
The Issue of Multiculturalism Plato's Republic is under fire right now. Stanford University's core curriculum students are no longer required to read Plato's Republic because it represents…
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career twenty-five years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…