Blog Archives - William Gairdner

Islam and the Roots of Jihad

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Post published:November 28, 2023
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This lecture is an overview of the manner in which the entire Arab/Muslim world, which had been highly influential in studies of Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, began an aggressive attack on Western Reasoning initiated by the 11th century scholar…

Inconvenient Truth: 32 Climate Predictions Proven False

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Post published:November 27, 2023
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Inconvenient Truth: 32 Climate Predictions Proven False | by Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov…

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 28: Immigrants walk towards a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. A surge of asylum seeking migrants crossing the U.S. southern border has put pressure on U.S. immigration authorities, reaching record levels in recent weeks. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The Phony “Settler” vs. “Migrant” Debate

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Post published:November 20, 2023
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Settlers Versus Migrants…

Not a Genocide

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Post published:August 8, 2023
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Terrible things happened at many of Canada’s Residential Schools. But describing these institutions as instruments of mass murder is inaccurate. By Ian Gentles The movement to describe Canada’s system of Indian Residential Schools as a “genocide” has been gaining momentum…

New Book Out

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Post published:May 11, 2023
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This book was entirely unexpected. In late 2018 I received a phone call from a gentleman in San Diego who asked if I would consider writing columns for the Epoch Times newspaper? The what? I had never heard of Epoch…

Canada Needs An “Override” Clause to Control Leftist Judges

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Post published:February 24, 2023
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Below is a note I sent today to an Israeli friend who asked me about the significance of the “Override” Clause voted into law last week by the Israeli Knesset/Parliament: The simplest way to put this is to say that…

“They Were Not Forced”

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:February 15, 2023
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The claim that 150,000 status Indian[1] children were ‘forced’ to attend residential schools is misleading at best. By Nina Green, Brian Giesbrecht, and Tom Flanagan (published here by permission of The Dorchester Review) Part 1 IN HIS RESIDENTIAL schools apology…

Why Human Social-Bonding is Naturally Anti-Liberal

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Post published:February 6, 2023
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This talk examines the eternal war between human civil societies and the egalitarian State, explaining in close detail how human social bonding naturally creates a myriad of in-group privileges without which there can be no group bonding. This in turn…

Pro-abortion activists protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on May 3, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Fallacy of Human Rights

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:January 12, 2023
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“Human rights” are everywhere, and are everywhere described with astonishing vagueness as something “inherent” in all human beings, simply because we are human. It’s a circular assertion. Largely in reaction to the tragedies and slaughters of World War II, the…

Six Kinds of Freedom

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Post published:December 12, 2022
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This is a talk about a half-dozen conceptions of “freedom” found in human societies from ancient times to the present. It is a term everyone assumes is self-explanatory, has the same meaning at all times, and is easily understood. But…