Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Run to the mountain: Shed those scales on your eyes That hinder you from seeing God. –Dante, Purgatorio, II, 7 We had the experience but missed the meaning –T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, (The Dry Salvages) Today I climbed the highest mountain in this...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times “Chomsky…. is a major scholarly resource. Not to have read (him) is to court genuine ignorance.”—The Nation...
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...
