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Here’s What’s Wrong With Human “Rights”

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Post published:December 5, 2022
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Many popular assumptions about “rights” are fully exposed in this talk. What is a “right”? The definition defended is that a right is not some mystical property of a human being, as many imagine. It is simply “a defensible claim”,…

Hitler’s “True Democracy”

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:November 22, 2022
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This lecture is guaranteed to be a shock to Western citizens, for we have all been trained to accept the common notion that Hitler was a totalitarian despot. From the perspective of our own “liberal” democracies, that’s true. He was…

Karl Marx’s “True Democracy”

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Post published:November 15, 2022
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In a prior discussion (“How Democracy Becomes Totalitarian”, posted on YouTube Nov. 9th) the surprising lockstep path from the theory of egalitarian democracy to the actual totalitarian state, beginning with the example of the murderous French Revolution, was outlined in…

How Democracy Becomes Totalitarian

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:November 9, 2022
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The phrase “totalitarian democracy” at first sounds very odd. How could that be? Aren’t these two political systems opposites? That’s what most people believe. But as this talk explains, and as an influential French critic has remarked, “democracy is the…

Queen Elizabeth II, Bear-Hats, and Cathedrals

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:September 12, 2022
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We never knew why, or thought we were good enough to deserve it, but in the fall of 1952, after winning the Kiwanis music festival prize for best boys’ choir, we were invited by the British Commonwealth Youth Movement to…

Interview with Steve Paiken, Host of TVO, on my book “The War Against The Family” (1993).

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:September 9, 2022
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By the time of this interview the book was already #4 in Canada on the Coles Bestseller list, although it was banned by a few major book sellers such as Duthie’s Books in Vancouver, taken off the shelves at some…

Wokeness: A New Religion?

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:July 25, 2022
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Civilizations tend to repeat the ideological pattern that made them strong in the first place. At first, these patterns have theological form and substance. But if belief in God becomes obsolete, they tend to continue the same pattern in secular…

The Future of Conservatism In Canada

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:March 4, 2022
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The future of conservatism in Canada (feat. William Gairdner)…

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau gets a round of applause from Liberal members in the House of Commons after signing an accord with the provincial premiers on the constitutional talks in Ottawa, Thursday, Nov. 5, 1981. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand)

The Charter at 40: How Canada Got Re-Colonized

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:January 3, 2022
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We are regularly treated to surveys of public opinion about Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canadians love it, though the vast majority have never read it. Not a word. The real story of the Charter, the reasons for…

What Is A Constitution?

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:August 28, 2021
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Today I received a few questions from journalist Lee Harding about the reason for Canada’s Constitution (the BNA Act of 1867, to which was added the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982). He wanted some thoughts on why we…