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| 1) It's A Question of Vision | 5) "Health" In A Sick Society |
| - A Tyranny of Individuals | - No Freedom To Heal Ourselves |
| - The Pay-Equity Feeding Frenzy | - Nature Is Bad For You |
| - Con Artists | - Condomnation |
| - Government Jocks and Jockettes | - More Truth About Condoms |
| - Our Nurturing Nightmare | - The Abortion-Cancer Link Covered Up |
| - Which One Is The Wife? | - When Humans Are Defined As Things |
| - Let's Write A Contract With Canada | - The Street Of The Dead Fetuses |
| - The Mythical Money Monster | |
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| 2) On Culture Wars | 6) A Liberal Education |
| - Parochialism of Race and Blood | - Only Public Education Is In Crisis |
| - We Do Have a Culture! | - Vouching For The Voucher System |
| - When Poppies Trump Turbans | - The Educational Jackboot |
| - Soften the Mind - Grab The Land | - Junk Science |
| - Porn Destroys What Is Good | - Darwins's Monkey Business |
| - Why Should The Charter Protect Appetites? | - Canada's Slave Tradition |
| A Feverish Search For "Equality" | - Defiant Townsfolk Defend A Slave |
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| 3) Separation Anxieties | 7) The Morality Thing |
| - Hell No! Quebec Can't Go | - Spectres of "Reason" |
| - The Separation Kid | - New Right Talks Like Old Left |
| - One Lousy Voice - Everyone's Destiny | - Can Democracy Be Moral? |
| - Stompin' Tom Put It Best | - Suffocated By Do-Gooders |
| - Crazy People Don't Really Laugh |
| 4) It's A Crime | - The Most Evil Lie Of All? |
| - Dostoevsky's quivering Tail | - Moral Vision, Moral Society |
| - Gender Bashing Hurts Us All | |
| - "Hate Law" a Tombstone For Free Thinking | 8) Some Matters Of Conviction |
| - Criminal Injustice | - He Knew What He Stood For |
| - Less Gun Control, More Self Control | - Small Death, Big Lesson |
| - Stifling A "Sig Heil" | - Form a "Hissing Cauldron of Lust" to the Mind of God |
| - Unjust Laws A Danger To Society | |
| - False Mercy | |
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| Comments/Reviews |
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| * "A healthy democracy needs a healthy debate about ideas. A healthy mind needs to be challenged in its thinking. That's why I asked Bill Gairdner to write a column for The Edmonton Journal -- not because he generally agrees with our editorial page view (or my personal views) but because he doesn't. I enjoy reading well-argued and well-written opinions of all kinds. If you do, too, and if you enjoy having your thinking challenged, read this book..." |
| ~ Murdoch Davis, Editor in Chief, The Edmonton Journal |
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| * "This self-styled 'voice of the silent majority' speaks in calm, measured phrases that reveal his fascination with philosophy and love of a good debate." |
| ~ The Calgary Herald |
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| * "With On Higher Ground, Gairdner has found his touch. In many of the pieces he treats readers to the aphoristic turns of phrase that transform ephemeral journalism into enduring essay." |
| ~ Peter Stockland, Calgary Herald |
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| * "You can rely on pre-eminent social conservative William D. Gairdner to tell things as they are - no matter how intellectually unfashionable his view, or how unpopular it may make him ... [though] he is not unpopular, of course, with legions of Canadians who hold similar beliefs and regard him as their champion." |
| ~ Alberta Report |
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| * "William Gairdner sends those on the left into fits of apoplexy ... the Journal brought the former Olympian-author-farmer on board to balance the left-wing tone of its editorial pages, and that's precisely what he's done - often to the outrage of readers, who regularly demand that he be fired." |
| ~ The New Brunswick Reader |
