One of the most powerful memes in Canada is that “Canada is a nation of immigrants”. Of course, Canada has always been a place of… Read More »“Canada Is a Nation Created by Diverse Immigrants” — A False Meme
The Philosophers of the “Axial Age”: Socrates, Confucius, Buddha and Zarathustra From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and 70s, World History books did recognize… Read More »Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, and a Common History for Humanity
The Basic Flaw in Taylor’s Argument Charles Taylor, viewed by some as the greatest Canadian thinker of the post WW II era, is best known… Read More »Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognizing Minorities while Suppressing Eurocanadians
Martha Nussbaum — Ecstatic with Herself The world of academia is full of hyper inflated academics with multiple titles, prizes, honors, publications, grants and “original”… Read More »Martha Nussbaum: Premier Citizen of the World
The claim that the Roman empire was a legally sanctioned multiracial state is another common trope used by cultural Marxists to create an image of… Read More »Was Roman Citizenship Based on Laws for “all of Humanity”?
The invention of a civic identity was the first magisterial contribution of the Greeks to Western civilization without which their other accomplishments would have been… Read More »Acclaiming the Greek Invention of a Civic Identity
The 2014 CBC Massey Lecturer is Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada. The purpose of the Massey Lectures is to “enable distinguished authorities to… Read More »Adrienne Clarkson: The Greatest Mind of Our Times
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, published in 1806, should be read as an invaluable work on the distinctive restlessness of Western culture — so long as… Read More »Hegel and the Progression of the Western Spirit
Much of what the European New Right deems to be inherently detestable about Western civilization — racial egalitarianism, obsession with economic growth, linear view of… Read More »The European New Right and “Judeo-Christianity”: Part II