Nov 6, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
It is 100 years today since the Balfour Declaration was brought to the fore. The Balfour Declaration attempted, when read with some care, to balance the needs of Arabs living in Palestine at the time with the increasing demands of the Jews for a homeland in Palestine....
Nov 6, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
100 years have passed this October 31st 2017 (October 31 1517) since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses to Albert on the door of Wittenberg. Such a posting signals the birth of the Protestant Reformation and the shaking and shifting of the tectonic plates of Western...
Oct 20, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
George Grant was drawn to Martin Heidegger for the simple reason that Heidegger was, probably, one of the most severe critics of the modern way of doing philosophy and the western understanding of mind and what it means to think. Heidegger was convinced that...
Oct 20, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
George Grant was drawn to Martin Heidegger for the simple reason that Heidegger was, probably, one of the most severe critics of the modern way of doing philosophy and the western understanding of mind and what it means to think. Heidegger was convinced that...
Oct 11, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives (2012) Arnold Shives has obsessively hiked, climbed and depicted British Columbia’s mountains since the early 1960s. The fiftieth anniversary of his first extended mountaineering expedition seems an apposite moment to...
