William Gairdner

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William Gairdner is a best-selling author living near Toronto. His latest book is "Beyond the Rhetoric" (2021). His website is WilliamGairdner.ca, and on youtube.com/@William-Gairdner

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The Fallacy of Human Rights

Commentary “Human rights” are everywhere, and are everywhere described with astonishing vagueness as something “inherent” in all human ...

Viewpoints December 26, 2022
Getting Used to the F-word

Commentary There has never been much agreement on the definition of fascism. Nevertheless, the impression that, whatever its ...

Viewpoints August 31, 2022
Wokeness: A New Religion?

Commentary Civilizations tend to repeat the ideological pattern that made them strong in the first place. At first, ...

Viewpoints July 20, 2022
William Gairdner: From Soft Socialism to Soft Totalitarianism

Commentary At a breakfast meeting in Toronto with the late George Jonas—an author of keen insight and perspicacity—I ...

Viewpoints March 30, 2022
William Gairdner: The Charter at 40: How Canada Got Re-Colonized

Commentary We are regularly treated to surveys of public opinion about Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ...

Viewpoints December 28, 2021
Canada’s Slave Trade

Commentary Slavery? In Canada? How could it be? A little booklet called "Slavery and Freedom in Niagara," by ...

Viewpoints August 24, 2021
The Triumph of Will Over Human Nature

Commentary It’s deeply ironic that while our predecessors thought the most important use of human will was to ...

Viewpoints March 20, 2021
How Western Social and Moral Life Has Been Radically Altered

Commentary Countries that undergo a peaceful regime change from free and open to closed and less free, usually ...

Viewpoints December 28, 2020
On the Dangers of ‘Equality’

Commentary The question of the day seems to be whether or not equality can be legislated. The short ...

Viewpoints October 29, 2020
Celebrating the West

Commentary With COVID-19 spreading everywhere, these are unsettling times. All of us are self-isolating and cut off from ...

Viewpoints March 30, 2020
The Multiculture Mess: Attacking the Nation-State

Commentary In my last article for The Epoch Times, I proposed an essential distinction between a deep culture, ...

Viewpoints March 1, 2020
Beyond the Rhetoric: Trump Brings Back Founding Culture

Commentary A good friend amusingly described President Donald Trump as "the mouth that roared," attempting to define him ...

Viewpoints November 8, 2019
Video: The Four Stages of Liberalism

Commentary The above video is part of a series created by The North Wire. This video tells the ...

Viewpoints October 29, 2019
Democracy Against the Family: Part 2

Commentary For more than a century, all of the modern democracies—each at a different rate—have been abandoning their ...

Viewpoints July 25, 2019
Democracy Against the Family: Part 1

Commentary The idea that democracy, the political organization we know and love, might be incompatible with—or worse, might ...

Viewpoints June 19, 2019
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