Pushed to the Left and Loving It

The idea of a "new conservatism" took root after World War II, ignited by the fear of Communism. But it was Irving Kristol, a for...

(Left to right, William Gairdner, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom) A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I firs...

Canada's neoconservative movement has been slow to reach awareness in Canada, though throughout the 1990's, neoconservatism was a te...

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada The late Irving Kristol (d. 2009) was a self-proclaimed Straussian...

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada My favourite political philosopher is Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), w...

"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense." - Benjamin Franklin The n...

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada In Lawrence Martin's book, Harperland , he relates a conversat...

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada To achieve a better understanding of how the neoconservative movem...

I was quietly reading today when I experienced an epiphany. It may have just been indigestion, but I started hauling out books and making a ...

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada There are many arguments about Leo Strauss and his position as the...