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Posted: April 18, 2012
Several millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that man was different from the animals because only he had the gift of (thoughtful) speech. The cursing generation seems intent on erasing that distinction as Mark Milke explains…
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Authors » Patrick Keeney
Patrick Keeney's reviews and essays have appeared in various academic and popular publications. He is currently teaching in the School of Education at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.
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Posted: March 19, 2012
In this wide-ranging account, the economic historian Niall Ferguson sets out to explain the rise of Western civilization, as well as defend its achievements from the enervating effects of multiculturalism, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Ferguson argues that the economic, social and political institutions of the West still provide the best hope for guaranteeing lives which are meaningful and rewarding, and for solving the problems the modern world faces.
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Posted: August 24, 2011
Not every claim to a “ right” deserves a hearing. Political Scientist Patrick Keeney looks at the recent UK riots and finds that “rights-talk” without responsibility leads to the morally obtuse—the ones on display on that side of the Atlantic…
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Posted: May 3, 2010
Condescension, character assassination and conspiracy theories have dominated the debate over global warming. Maybe it’s time for goodwill in the debate argues Patrick Keeney…
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Posted: March 23, 2010
In his new book, Thomas Sowell argues Intellectuals can be bad for society’s health, in part because they are often the most credulous, the most prone to “bad and counterfeit” thinking, and least able to see past the conventional pieties of the age…..
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