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William Gairdner
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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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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