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William Gairdner

William Gairdner is an author living near Toronto. His latest book is "The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree" (2015). His website is www.williamgairdner.ca

Climate Change Confusion: What Are We to Think?

Commentary The climate wars are an international disgrace. For a half-century, the public has suffered a bombardment of ...

Viewpoints April 19, 2019
Sex Differences, and the War Between Nature and Nurture

"Girls and boys are as different from the neck up as they are from the neck down," says ...

Men & Women: Embracing Our Differences March 14, 2019
So Americans Want Canadian Health Care? Think Again!

Commentary At the end of January, a rather smugly proud Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and a feisty ...

Viewpoints February 11, 2019
Democracy, Abortion, and Slavery

Commentary "All who support slavery are free, and all who support abortion are alive." The Legislature of New ...

Viewpoints January 24, 2019
Augustine’s Good and Evil

Commentary What are we to think of a man who tells God, "I defied you, even so far ...

Viewpoints December 23, 2018
The Weakness of Libertarianism

Libertarianism commands respect today as the only personal and political philosophy of the Western world standing in defense ...

Viewpoints December 12, 2018
The Will to Control, the Will to Obey, and the Will to Be Free

Commentary In a previous article, I described six kinds of freedom. And all my life, I have believed ...

Viewpoints November 26, 2018
To Deny Sex Differences Is to Harm Society

Commentary Plato sowed the wind of sexual egalitarianism a long time ago. So did Karl Marx, his sugar-daddy ...

Viewpoints November 5, 2018
Six Kinds of Freedom

Commentary I have a reflex affection for the word “freedom.” But what does it mean? Most people answer: ...

Viewpoints October 31, 2018
Abolish the Senate? Not so Fast!

Commentary In our long Western tradition, the changing conceptions of what a senate ought to be are intimately ...

Viewpoints October 22, 2018
‘Libertarian–Socialism’: How Modern Democracy Overcame Its Own Contradiction

Commentary The totalitarian states of the 20th century, whether of national socialist (Nazi and fascist) or international socialist ...

Viewpoints October 14, 2018
The Split Personality of the ‘Anti-Polis’

This familiar map of the 2016 American election, broken down by red (representing Republican) and blue (representing Democrat) ...

Viewpoints October 14, 2018