Patrick Keeney

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Canadians care about freedom, they must care about the institutions that cultivate the habits of mind on w…

For many, the salient point of the Epstein files is the scandal. I think it is more accurately seen as a disc…

Our public culture rewards juvenile certainty while punishing hesitation, qualification, or good-faith disagr…

The reigning vice of our age is a smug overconfidence in rendering verdicts, an affliction which affects the …

A free society cannot endure without citizens capable of serious thought. The work of self-government demands…

Science has always depended on a collective judgment that is slow, careful, and selective. That judgment is n…

American Thanksgiving arrives each year with the reassuring cadence of a great civic ritual: parades and foot…

There is, in the politics of the Western world, something akin to what the Germans call the Angstrose — that …

David Livingstone at Vancouver Island University has recently edited a volume commemorating the thirtieth ann…

Among all the discussions about climate change, one aspect of the debate gets far too little attention: the m…

I remain deeply committed to the principles I believed once defined the progressive Left - reason, empiricism…

By Patrick Keeney The brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking not only for its violence but for the…

Those of us who have watched once-principled defenders of free expression, such as the American Civil Liberti…

The demise of climate alarmism has become, almost overnight, a fashionable subject of speculation.