HeyJaredShawn Whatley
What is conservatism? Author, senior fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Past President Civitas Canada, Past Pres OMA. Books: When Politics Comes Before Patients (2020), No More Lethal Waits (2016)
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Carney, Trump, & the Alberta Referendum w Cole Hogan #115 (opens the original)
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The Conservatives seem lost after Mark Carney stole economic liberalism from the CPC. Trump’s tariffs keep voters distracted, while separatism grows in Alberta and Quebec. All of this promises an exciting fall session with the Alberta referendum and elections in Quebec and B.C.Cole Hogan spends his life watching these events. We try to find the concepts and assumptions behind the excitement.Let me know what you think!Thanks again,ShawnChapters and AI summary:Host Shawn Whatley speaks with politi
What Is a Red Tory? Mark Graham on Canadian Conservatism, National Sovereignty, and the Monarchy #114 (opens the original)
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Just when you thought Red Tories had gone extinct, Mark Graham and colleagues start an online journal called the Red Tory Standard.Very few people run around with Tory banners, but then again, Torys aren’t the running-around types. But if they were, I suspect we still wouldn’t see very many of them.Mark Graham worked to prove me wrong. For someone who grew up in Northern Ontario, as I did, I found it interesting to hear his passion for the monarchy and polite criticism of what he called American
Hon. Jason Kenney on Alberta Exceptionalism, Canadian Identity, Immigration Integration, and Facing Trump #113 (opens the original)
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The Honorable Jason Kenney has spent his life observing, critiquing, and serving in Canadian politics. He offers wisdom you won’t find anywhere else.Kenney reflected on how he has changed. He said, “ GDP growth... is not a metric of human happiness or fulfillment or necessarily a healthy society.”Let me know what you think!Thanks again,ShawnAI Chapters:Host Shawn Whatley interviews former Alberta Premier and longtime federal minister Jason Kenney about what makes Canada and Alberta distinctive,
Robert Nisbet, Community, and the Growth of the State | Prof. Luke Sheahan #112 (opens the original)
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Robert Nisbet is not a communitarian in the modern sense. He combines an older view with a resolute concern about state power.Nisbet offers the best and most readable resources for thinking about community from a non-Left perspective.Prof. Luke Sheahan wrote the forward to a re-release of Nisbet’s Social Philosophers. The book is more like a review of intellectual history through the social lens of community.Check out Dr. Sheahan’s website to learn more about his work, articles, and published ma
Post-Liberalism and the Common Good (with Prof. James Wood) #111 (opens the original)
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Post-liberalism hasn’t been tried and found wanting. It’s been found confusing and left untouched in Canada.Post-liberalism has been around since the 1980s in theology and at least since the 1990s in politics. It only became popular in the 2010s.Conservatives need to go deep into post-liberal thought. We need to know what bits align with intellectual conservatism and what elements of post-liberalism may never fit. We need to understand the elements of policy that might flow from different branch
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