William Gairdner, Ph D, is a former Olympic athlete, businessman, and author living near Toronto. He began publishing serious essays and books on political and moral philosophy in mid-life, and among his many bestsellers — books that have profoundly enriched national dialogue and discussion — are The Trouble With Canada, The War Against the Family, Canada’s Founding Debates, The Book of Absolutes, and The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree. Then at 80, just when he was thinking about retirement, he was asked to write columns for The Epoch Times newspaper. Stirred by the newspaper’s motto, ‘Truth and Tradition, ‘ he jumped in and produced more than two dozen sparkling, insightful pieces that are collected and reproduced in Beyond the Rhetoric. Readers will be treated to penetrating and insightful commentary on a wide range of topics germane to the larger question of how we ought to live, as individuals, and as a nation.
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Table of Content
1. The Fallacy of Human Rights
December 26, 2022
2. The Rise of Microfascism in Western Democracies
August 31, 2022
3. Wokeness: A New Religion
July 20, 2022
4. From Soft Socialism to Soft Totalitarianism
March 30, 2022
5. The Charter at 40: How Canada Got Re-Colonized
December 28, 2021
6. Canada’s Slave Trade
August 24, 2021
7. The Triumph of Will Over Human Nature
March 20, 2021
8. How Western Social and Moral Life Has Been Radically Altered
December 28, 2020
9. On the Dangers of ‘Equality’
October 29, 2020
10. Celebrating the West
March 30, 2020
11. The Multiculture Mess: Attacking the Nation-State
March 1, 2020
12. Beyond the Rhetoric: Trump Brings Back Founding Culture
November 8, 2019
13. The Four Stages of Liberalism
October 29, 2019
14. Democracy Against the Family
July 25, 2019
July 19, 2019
15. Climate Change Confusion: What Are We to Think?
April 19, 2019
16. Sex Differences, and the War Between Nature and Nurture
March 14, 2019
17. So Americans Want Canadian Health Care? Think Again!
February 11, 2019
18. Democracy, Abortion, and Slavery
January 24, 2019
19. Augustine’s Good and Evil
December 23, 2018
20. The Weakness of Libertarianism
December 12, 2018
21. The Will to Control, the Will to Obey, and the Will to Be Free
November 26, 2018
22. To Deny Sex Differences Is to Harm Society
November 5, 2018 (Updated: March 2, 2019)
23. Six Kinds of Freedom
October 31, 2018
24. Abolish the Senate? Not so Fast!
October 22, 2018
25. ’Libertarian-Socialism’: How Modern Democracy Overcame Its Own Contradiction
October 14, 2018
26. The Split Personality of the ‘Anti-Polis’
October 14, 2018
About the author
As a young athlete, Bill competed for Canada in the decathlon at the Pan-Am Games in Brazil (1963) and at the Olympic Games in Tokyo (1964), and then in two Commonwealth Games (Jamaica, 1966 and Scotland, 1970) in the 400 metre hurdles event. After earning a number of higher degrees, including a Doctorate in Literature and Philosophy from Stanford University, he taught at York University in Toronto, and then decided to pursue a career in business, from which he retired in 1988 to devote his time to writing. Beginning in 1990 and in quick succession, he produced a string of bestselling books, including The Trouble With Canada, and The War Against The Family. He was then the managing editor of Canada’s Founding Debates – now an historical landmark. On the heels of that he published The Trouble With Democracy and also The Book of Absolutes. And now, looking back over twenty years, we have The Trouble With Canada … Still! His most recent political work is The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree (2015), a timely analysis of the underlying ideological stresses and strains that are presently producing so much political disagreement and policy conflict on the surface of everyday life. At this crucial time in our history, William Gairdner presents fresh and bold insights helping readers understand the successes and strains in their midst and in Western civilization as a whole. William Gairdner.ca.
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