May 15, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
It Takes Raindrops to Fill a Lake: The first fifty years of Abbotsford Community Services (Walter Paetkau, 2019). CLICK HERE to purchase a copy. Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) has, in many ways, been both the organizational conscience and a substantive...
May 9, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
If Lockean liberalism is the conservatism of the English-speaking peoples, what was there in British conservatism that was not present in the bourgeois thought of Hamilton and Madison? If there was nothing, then the acts of the Loyalists are deprived of all...
Apr 18, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Michael Massing, Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018). ...
Apr 17, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Susan McCaslin & J.S. Porter, Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance With The Feminine (Wood Lake Publishing,...
Apr 1, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
The Glorious Mountains of Vancouver’s North Shore: A Peakbagger’s Guide by David Crerar, Harry Crerar, and Bill Maurer Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2018 $40.00 / 9781771602419 Reviewed by Ron Dart We have been in desperate need on the West...
Mar 16, 2019 | Author - Ron Dart
Hesse’s two works of these crucial years—Journey to the East composed in 1930 andThe Glass Bead Game, written between 1931 and 1942—were deeply political books in a sense quite different from the previous novels. –Ralph Freedman, Hermann Hesse:...