May 28, 2024 | Author - Ron Dart
ABEL COME FORTH: SHEPHERD OF BEING The Jewish tale of Cain and Abel often pits the aggressive and ambitious Cain against the more reflective and contemplative Abel, Abel the Shepherd, Cain, the ever-driven entrepreneur. The tragic myth ends with Cain killing his...
Dec 28, 2023 | Author - Ron Dart
The Slaughter of the Innocents: Then and Now – Ron Dart We reflect at this season of the liturgical year on both the birth of Jesus but also the immediate political implications of it: the slaughter of innocent children under two years of age by the Roman military....
Nov 28, 2023 | Author - Ron Dart
Ron Dart taught in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Fraser Valley (British Columbia) for 33 years. He has published and edited more than forty books, including Scrutinizing Scruton: Canadian High Toryism and...
Oct 31, 2023 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Torbjorn Ekelund, The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery (Greystone Books, 2023). The Boy and the Mountain was originally published in Norwegian in 2017 and translated into English in 2023. Ekelund has, thus far, published two fine...
Jul 21, 2023 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jan Zwicky, Once upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). I lived for a couple of years in the young 1970s in northern Norway and Switzerland. I spent time in Norway with the mountain Sami—this...
Jun 5, 2023 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, Wheaton: 2020).Carl R. Trueman, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual...