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Patrick Keeney

Canada, Kelowna, Thailand
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Covers:  Education, liberal learning, literature, media, political philosophy, religion, travel, universities
Doesn't Cover: sport

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Patrick Keeney’s Biography

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Patrick Keeney holds a Ph.D. in the philosophy of education from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His areas of interest include higher education, liberal learning, conservative politics, and religion. His writings have appeared in a wide variety of journals in both the academic and popular press, in Canada, the UK, and the U.S. He divides his year between Kelowna, B.C, and Thailand, where he is currently a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Education at Chiang Mai University.

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The End of the Celebrity Newsman

The End of the Celebrity Newsman

By Patrick Keeney There are few environments more conducive to an inflated sense of self-importance than the …

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Henry Nowak, The Media and the Poverty of the 'Far-Right' Explanation

Henry Nowak, The Media and the Poverty of the 'Far-Right' Explanation

By Patrick Keeney The brutal murder of Henry Nowak should have focused public attention on the circumstances …

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Liberal Learning and the Crisis of the University

Liberal Learning and the Crisis of the University

by Patrick Keeney (June 2026) This essay is a revised version of a talk I delivered at Swedenborg House on Ap…

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The Desecration of Man and the Crisis of Western Civilization

The Desecration of Man and the Crisis of Western Civilization

By Patrick Keeney We live in feverish times. The daily news arrives as a succession of cultural upheavals, in…

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Beyond Preference: Rick Beato and the Defence of Standards

Beyond Preference: Rick Beato and the Defence of Standards

By Patrick Keeney American musician and musicologist Rick Beato recently criticised a list of the 30 greatest…

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The Inflation of Harm: When Language Loses Its Moral Weight

The Inflation of Harm: When Language Loses Its Moral Weight

By Patrick Keeney There is a peculiar temptation in our time to extend the moral vocabulary of harm beyond it…

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Articles

High-Spin Defect Clustering and Emergent Magnetism in TiS 2

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By Patrick Keeney, Kyle Taylor, Thomas M. Pekarek
| Wiley Online Library Verified
, , , , , and , “High-Spin Defect Clustering and Emergent Magnetism in TiS2.” Advanced Functional Materials (2026): e76835. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.76835 Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. References 1, , , , and , “2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides,” Nature Reviews Materials 2 (2017): 17033.
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The End of the Celebrity Newsman

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By Patrick Keeney
| New English Review
By Patrick Keeney There are few environments more conducive to an inflated sense of self-importance than the modern university. Having spent much of my adult life in academia, I have encountered no shortage of individuals who hold a remarkably inflated view of their own importance. As the young folk are fond of saying, professors can get high on their own supply. In an earlier era, we would have said that our colleagues are prone to reading their own press releases.
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Standards, Expertise and the Art of Judgment

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By Patrick Keeney
| All About Jazz
American musician and musicologist Rick Beato recently criticised a list of the 30 greatest contemporary American songwriters compiled by music critics from The New York Times. He dismissed the exercise as meaningless. His objection was not primarily to compiling such a list, nor to the names nominated, but rather to the dubious authority of the critics themselves. Rick Beato is among the more knowledgeable commentators on contemporary music.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for Quill and Quire, the trade paper of the Canadian publishing industry.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes!

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