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Patrick Keeney

Canada, Kelowna, Thailand
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The Death of Jason Arday: A Casualty of the Ideology That Elevated Him

The Death of Jason Arday: A Casualty of the Ideology That Elevated Him

By Patrick Keeney The death of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, is fir…

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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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The University as a Civic Institution: Beyond Means and Metrics

The University as a Civic Institution: Beyond Means and Metrics

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

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The Unsettling Truths the Epstein Files Reveal About Power and Privilege

The Unsettling Truths the Epstein Files Reveal About Power and Privilege

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

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Stolen Land at the Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy

Stolen Land at the Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy

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

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The Quiet Dignity of Uncertainty

The Quiet Dignity of Uncertainty

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

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Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach

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The Loss of Liberal Learning

The Loss of Liberal Learning

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

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D. O. Hebb

D. O. Hebb

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Buried by Our Own Knowledge: Donald Hebb and the Knowledge Crisis

Buried by Our Own Knowledge: Donald Hebb and the Knowledge Crisis

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

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The View From Canada on Thanksgiving Day

The View From Canada on Thanksgiving Day

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

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Die Angstrose

Die Angstrose

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

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Victimhood as Virtue: Pascal Bruckner and the Cult of Suffering

Victimhood as Virtue: Pascal Bruckner and the Cult of Suffering

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Britain’s human rights debate and why Canada should listen

Britain’s human rights debate and why Canada should listen

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KEENEY: Recovering First Principles: Humility as the moral ground of democracy

KEENEY: Recovering First Principles: Humility as the moral ground of democracy

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

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Why Climate Alarmists Are Bad for the Developing World

Why Climate Alarmists Are Bad for the Developing World

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

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KEENEY: The hollow virtues of the progressive Left

KEENEY: The hollow virtues of the progressive Left

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

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Charlie Kirk and the Fragility of Civic Peace

Charlie Kirk and the Fragility of Civic Peace

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

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KEENEY: Jimmy Kimmel, the rise of smugness and the fall of late night comedy

KEENEY: Jimmy Kimmel, the rise of smugness and the fall of late night comedy

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

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