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Totalitarian Lawyers: 1943 and 2018

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:March 20, 2018
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This is a Guest Post by my Canadian colleague Howard Rotberg – A Lawyer, the Publisher of Mantua Books, and most recently, the author of The Ideological Path to Submission …and what we can do about it. It is a…

A Gentle Corrective for David Frum

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:March 13, 2018
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My Son recently sent me this interesting interview with David Frum on the Rubin Report. David Rubin is a disarming sort of chap, who gives the impression of having a real interest in honest and well-rounded debate from any and…

The Dramatic Shift From Classical Liberalism, to Libertarian-Socialism

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:March 9, 2018
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Here is another Table, which I expanded upon in my book The Great Divide (on pages 26-30) , that sharply illustrates the regime-change in Canada since the middle of the last century. A Table very similar to this could be…

The Great Divide of The Western World

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:March 8, 2018
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This is the first Table that appears in The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree (which you can see under “Books” on this website). I had a little trouble formatting the spacing when I lifted it…

Time to Face the Multicultural Mess

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:February 23, 2018
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Here is a short video on the failure of multiculturalism in the West. Multiculturalism has FAILED- How to Successfully Manage Diversity It is not just a rant. A handful of precise opinions are voiced, and the underlying research is cited…

The Radicalism of The Humanist Manifesto

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:February 19, 2018
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Below, I give a Summary of The Humanist Manifesto (Parts I 1933, and II, 1973), with some brief comments of my own in square brackets. Everyone concerned about what is looking very much like the decline of the West,…

Canada’s Soft Totalitarianism (Really)

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:January 23, 2018
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At a breakfast meeting in Toronto a few years ago with the late George Jonas – an author of keen insight and perspicacity – I asked him what it was like to live under totalitarian rule, as he had done…

Libertarian-Socialism: How Liberal-Democracy Overcame Its Own Contradictions

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:January 5, 2018
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The totalitarian states of the Twentieth century, whether of national socialist (Nazi and Fascist) or international socialist (Communist) ambitions, were aiming to control almost every aspect of life from the top down; to bring about by force of law and…

The Future Is (Almost) Now

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:January 3, 2018
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This was an interesting talk about some futuristic changes to modern life by the Managing Director of Daimler Benz (Mercedes Benz), who began by saying their competitors are no longer other car companies but Tesla (obvious), Google, Apple, Amazon. Then,…

First Post on This New Website: Some Good/Shocking Reading!

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:December 29, 2017
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Here is an interesting and persuasive essay on: Why Leftists/Progressives fail to criticize Islam for its many social and moral failings. The main gist, and it’s true, I believe, is that reluctance of the left to critique Islam is actually…