May 2018 - William Gairdner

Balancing the biased “Genocide” Story About Residential Schools

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Post published:May 31, 2018
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I have been waiting a long time to hear a more balanced “truth” about Canada’s Residential schools for Indian/Native/Aboriginal/First-Nations (etc., etc) children. Someday, I thought, voices will be raised in defence of the efforts those schools made to educate, feed,…

A Useful Analysis of the Prevalent Victim-hood Culture

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 22, 2018
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Visitors may find that this article on our present victim-hood culture makes useful distinctions between dignity, honour, and victim-hood that help us understand our present confusions. None of these confusions would exist, of course, in a world of real crisis.…

New Study Reveals 1,500+ Gene-based Gender Differences

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 16, 2018
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Below is a link to a recent study that is going to help sink the egalitarian ship. In the century and half it has taken for Western liberalism to mutate from its original, eighteenth-century foundation in liberty, to its subsequent…

Honest Skepticism About Residential Schools

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Post published:May 11, 2018
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Below, you will find very revealing “comments” on an article about the cult of the so-called “Noble-Savage” that was recently published in the on-line Journal Quillette, by Toronto journalist Jonathan Kay (himself now an Editor of this Journal). Kay’s article…

My Interview With Gad Saad

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 9, 2018
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On the way to the annual Civitas Conference in Montreal on April 27th, I stopped in to do an interview with Professor Gad Saad. He is a fine fellow and a true Freethinker. You can watch the interview here:…

Christianity, and The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 7, 2018
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Below is my only slightly-edited reply to “Eli”, who kindly sent a comment on my first Podcast: “The Four Stages of Liberalism,” which is posted on this website. On re-reading my own reply, I would say that in a very…

Ben Shapiro Slices and Dices the Phony Starbucks “Racial” Incident

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 3, 2018
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Here is a cool-headed evisceration of the Starbucks “racial” incident by Ben Shapiro, who applies his scalpel-like intellect to it. Stay tuned ’til near the end when the black police chief states the facts. Looks like it was a case…

Alfie Evans and the War Between Parents and the State

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:May 2, 2018
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Here is an excellent piece from the excellent on-line journal Quillette, covering the heartbreaking Alfie Evans case, in which his caring and sensible parents were denied the right to make final decisions on the life and death of their beloved…