Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“I’m an unrevised, unrepented Sir John A. Macdonald conservative… There aren’t many of us left… Just Creighton and me… That is… if Donald will admit me to the sacred precincts… I’m sick of pygmies trying to destroy what giants created.”—Eugene Forsey When Brian...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Time magazine has called Stanley Hauerwas “America’s Best Theologian” and The New York Times has called Noam Chomsky “the most important intellectual alive.” Such well placed laurels, wreaths, and crowns should not go unnoticed. Some would argue, and legitimately so,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
John Foster Dulles once said that there were two ways to control and dominate another state. The first approach was military invasion and occupation. This approach tends to be the messiest, most obvious and brutal, and, hence, a last resort. The second approach is to...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
The recent decision by the Progressive Conservative party and the Alliance party to fold into and become the Canadian Conservative party does raise some interesting and important questions. What does it mean to be a Canadian conservative? Who defines the term? Why, at...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
High Tory Nationalist Meets Tory Comprador George Grant “has been called Canada’s greatest political philosopher,” and Clark Pinnock has been called “perhaps the most significant evangelical theologian of the last half of the twentieth century.” George Grant was also...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
The Boston Globe once called T.S. Eliot “the most important English speaking poet and critic of the 20th century.” There is no doubt that Eliot was a major presence on the stage of 20th century literary, religious, political, and intellectual life. Eliot had an...
