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Why The Odds Favor Islam

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:June 12, 2017
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Here is a sobering piece by William Kilpatrick, published in Crisis Magazine, June 12, 2017. It will perk the spirits of Christians, and give pasue for deep thought to secularists. ************…
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A Fine Essay On The End of Universities

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:May 21, 2017
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Here is a fine piece by the eloquent British thinker and author Roger Scruton, on the decline of our universities. Who would ever have thought we would see sucha day? https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/04/the-end-of-the-university…
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My “Interview” With the CBC’s Peter Gzowski

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:May 5, 2017
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I am in the process of assembling a collection of some of the Audio and Video interviews I have done over the last thirty years, to leave for my five children and thirteen grandchildren. They were not aware of much…
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How Exercise Can Kill You

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:April 12, 2017
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I am still in a bit of shock and disbelief that I am writing this blog. I have been a sport and exercise junkie for over 60 years, and I have lately discovered the new sport science that says I,…
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Can Democracy Be Moral?

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:April 11, 2017
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This is a slightly edited version of a previously published essay I wrote in the last century (!) of the same title. I have been thinking a lot lately of the distinction that seems to have been lost between a…
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An Autopsy On “The Humanities”

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:April 5, 2017
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Speaking as a one-time English Professor, I would say this essay by the American writer James Walker, recently posted online with Quillette Magazine, accurately exposes the intellectual rot in the so-called Humanities. **************…
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Why Communalism Can’t Work

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 30, 2017
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This Snapshot is taken from: The Trouble With Canada …Still! (BPS Books, 2010). ***************…
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What “Euthansia” Is, and Is Not

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 27, 2017
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If you ask most people to define “euthanasia”, they will pause a little, then say it has something to do with helping someone who is old, or sick, or suffering, to die. They rarely consider the various complicated scenarios that…
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Libertarianism is a Handmaid of the State

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  • Post published:March 22, 2017
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What follows is my response to a group of friends in our discussion of the Pros and Cons of Libertarianism: *******************…
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Islamist Terrorism in Canada, Against Canada, & Against the West

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  • Post published:March 18, 2017
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What follows is drawn from The Trouble With Canada … Still! and includes info up to 2010. Serious enough?…
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