The Adults in the Room: Cold War Liberalism Revisited
A personal journey through North American liberalism, from inherited family values to political evolution, examining liberal identity and challenges in modern democracy.
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Cold War Liberalism
We can begin to understand why the barbarians were a kind of solution. They forced us to remember what freedom was and to imagine what it could be once again. Now we face a new challenge: how to conserve liberal freedoms once our citizens feel safe enough to take them for granted.
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Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead
My subject is “Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead”. We’re in a struggle to reinvent our country, to maintain our unity at home and project our influence abroad. Before we can reinvent ourselves tomorrow, we need to understand how this country was made. One of my themes is the way in which the national identity and the nation-building of Canada was structured by forces outside us, chiefly by the forces and ideologies of empire.