Commentary
Columns and essays in the National Post, The Hub, the Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere, 2011 to the present.
2026
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The Hub · 2 October 2026
We’ve been making fun of Fukuyama for 30 years. We should have been reading him.
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National Post · 12 September 2026
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National Post · 21 August 2026
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National Post · 16 June 2026
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National Post · 6 June 2026
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National Post · 20 May 2026
Nothing says generic left-winger like getting an honorary degree
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The Hub · 8 May 2026
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National Post · 2 April 2026
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National Post · 23 March 2026
Don Cherry snub exposes Order of Canada’s partisan, elitist bias
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The Hub · 18 March 2026
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National Post · 2 March 2026
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National Post · 10 February 2026
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The Hub · 30 January 2026
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National Post · 11 January 2026
Earlier years
2025
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National Post · 20 December 2025
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National Post · 11 December 2025
Dec. 11 is the day Canada gained autonomy. Progressives want us to forget
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National Post · 27 November 2025
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National Post · 28 October 2025
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National Post · 22 October 2025
In the U.S., historians can be rock stars. But not in Canada
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National Post · 16 September 2025
Charlie Kirk murder an example of how cancel culture leads to violence
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The Line · 4 September 2025
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National Post · 11 August 2025
Judge brought politics through the back door in Toronto bike lane case
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National Post · 24 July 2025
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National Post · 29 June 2025
Canada’s long-standing tradition of sweeping its British roots under the rug
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National Post · 10 June 2025
How Canadian universities can avoid the American dumpster fire of de-woking
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National Post · 2 June 2025
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National Post · 2 May 2025
The radical takeover of a Canadian studies conference in Britain
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National Post · 8 April 2025
Mark Carney gives in to woke left, throws father under the bus
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National Post · 30 March 2025
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National Post · 17 March 2025
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National Post · 4 March 2025
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National Post · 10 February 2025
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National Post · 22 January 2025
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The Hub · 8 January 2025
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National Post · 6 January 2025
Governor General betrays Constitution by letting Liberals escape Parliament
2024
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National Post · 24 December 2024
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The Hub · 17 December 2024
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National Post · 17 December 2024
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National Post · 2 December 2024
He is pro-Israel. Literary activists destroyed his life’s work
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National Post · 18 November 2024
John A. Macdonald — a reputation trashed so hatefully, suddenly and thoroughly
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National Post · 31 October 2024
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National Post · 22 October 2024
Serious questions for Canadians who still support Samidoun and Hamas
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National Post · 8 October 2024
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National Post · 17 September 2024
The ‘settler’ label has taken on uniquely religious characteristics
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National Post · 1 September 2024
Universities should drop the wokeness or brace for conservative reforms
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National Post · 14 August 2024
Conservatives are weird — because progressives have bastardized cultural norms
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National Post · 30 July 2024
‘Unhoused,’ not ‘homeless’ — advocates craft a new language of victimhood
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National Post · 15 July 2024
Liberal MPs have the power to replace Trudeau — they just have to take it
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National Post · 27 June 2024
Canadian Encyclopedia succumbs to the wokification of history
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The Hub · 17 June 2024
Four ways Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives can fight woke ideology
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National Post · 12 June 2024
Treasonous MPs the end result of project to delegitimize Canada
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The Hub · 2 February 2024
2011 – 2023
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The Hub · 7 December 2023
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National Post · 16 November 2023
Oh look, the progressive left suddenly cares about free speech
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The Hub · 16 May 2023
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National Post · 5 May 2023
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Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 15 February 2023
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National Post · 12 January 2023
Jordan Peterson will be ok, it’s the rest of us who need to worry
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National Post · 29 October 2022
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National Post · 30 September 2022
Conservative Professors are Self-Censoring to Avoid Left-Wing Hostility
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National Post · 15 June 2022
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The Hub · 9 February 2022
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National Post · 20 December 2021
Quebec commission proposes bold new approach to protect academic freedom from woke mobs
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Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 22 November 2021
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Literary Review of Canada · October 2021
A review of Price, Questions of Order: Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada
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History Reclaimed · September 2021
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Quillette · 10 August 2021
The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake Consensus on Genocide
Republished in the National Post, 13 August 2021
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The Hub · 28 June 2021
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National Post · 6 May 2021
Canadians’ rights collide
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The Hub · 5 May 2021
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National Post · 4 March 2021
The results are in — there is an ingrained bias in academia against conservatives
In print 9 March 2021
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Literary Review of Canada · January/February 2021
A review of three books on Louis Riel
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Quillette · 17 September 2019
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National Post · 4 July 2019
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Literary Review of Canada · October 2018
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Peterborough Examiner · 30 June 2017
Four Secrets of Canada’s Success
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Globe and Mail · 28 October 2015
History Lessons, Cast in Bronze
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Literary Review of Canada · September 2015
A review of Donald Wright, Donald Creighton: A Life in History
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Toronto Star · 21 December 2014
A Monument to Victims or Just Partisan Bluster?
Not online
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The Dorchester Review · Autumn/Winter 2014
Eugene Forsey’s Traditionalism
Vol. 4, no. 2
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Ottawa Citizen · 7 November 2014
After Del Mastro
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Literary Review of Canada · May 2014
A review of Julie Gilmour, Trouble on Main Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, Race, and the 1907 Vancouver Riots
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Ottawa Citizen · 15 January 2014
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Ottawa Citizen · 4 December 2013
No devil in Museum of History details
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The Dorchester Review · Autumn/Winter 2013
National Indigestion
Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 40–44
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Ottawa Citizen · 14 November 2013
CanLit Embarrasses Itself
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Ottawa Citizen · 4 November 2013
Political Scandals Don’t Always Stick
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Ottawa Citizen · 7 May 2013
MPs Don’t Really Want to Talk About History
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Literary Review of Canada · April 2012
Lester Pearson on Trial
A review of Yves Engler, The Truth About Lester Pearson
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Literary Review of Canada · September 2011
A review of Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s
