The Tory Touch: True North and Old South
Introduction It seems a very propitious moment to think about Canadian and Southern history in conjunction given the recent and more or less concurrent bicentennial of the…
Canadian Guardian: The Educational Statesmanship of Egerton Ryerson
"The wisdom of Plato’s maxim holds good: “We should never choose any one as a guardian of the laws who does not exult in virtue.” – Egerton…
From Guardianism to Postmodernism: Historiography and the Interpretation of Canadian Political Culture
The purpose of this article is to shed some light on a segment of Canadian intellectual history, in particular the changing theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of…
Hierarchy, Beauty, and Freedom: D. H. Lawrence’s Response To Techno-Industrial Modernity
The discussion which follows is intended to provide more evidence for what a number of scholars have recently been contending about Lawrence’s fundamental ontological vision. It derives…
Leo Strauss and the 1960s
Almost inevitably the effort to claim Leo Strauss for the left has to deal with the problem of the 1960’s “Revolution” and its transformation of the politics…
Leo Strauss and The National Review
“The crisis of liberalism is a crisis due to the fact that it has abandoned its absolutist basis and is trying to become entirely relativistic.” - Leo…
Response to Gottfried
Diversity on the Right Paul Gottfried has noticed a “gaping hole” in my recent piece on Leo Strauss. This “gaping hole” consists of an insufficiently detailed account…
The Monstrous Politics of Leo Strauss
But as perfect men I regard those who are able to mingle and fuse political capacity with philosophy. Such men, I take it, are masters of the…