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Patrick Keeney

Canada, Kelowna, Thailand
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Covers:  Education, liberal learning, literature, media, political philosophy, religion, travel, universities
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The University Should Teach Students to Forget Themselves

The University Should Teach Students to Forget Themselves

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney Carlos Carvalho, president of the University of Austin, recently told his incoming students, "The whole world will keep telling you to find yourself. We're hoping for something
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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

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney The death of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, is first and foremost a human tragedy. On Aug. 14, only days after
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The End of the Celebrity Newsman

The End of the Celebrity Newsman

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
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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

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney The brutal murder of Henry Nowak should have focused public attention on the circumstances surrounding his death and the troubling questions it raises about justice, race, and
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Liberal Learning and the Crisis of the University

Liberal Learning and the Crisis of the University

New English Review — by Patrick Keeney (June 2026) This essay is a revised version of a talk I delivered at Swedenborg House on April 18 this year. Let me begin with
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The Desecration of Man and the Crisis of Western Civilization

The Desecration of Man and the Crisis of Western Civilization

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney We live in feverish times. The daily news arrives as a succession of cultural upheavals, institutional breakdowns, and political fragmentation. It is accompanied by a pervasive sense
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Beyond Preference: Rick Beato and the Defence of Standards

Beyond Preference: Rick Beato and the Defence of Standards

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney 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
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The Inflation of Harm: When Language Loses Its Moral Weight

The Inflation of Harm: When Language Loses Its Moral Weight

New English Review — By Patrick Keeney There is a peculiar temptation in our time to extend the moral vocabulary of harm beyond its proper bounds. Words that once named grave realities, such as
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The University as a Civic Institution: Beyond Means and Metrics

The University as a Civic Institution: Beyond Means and Metrics

The Epoch Times — If Canadians care about freedom, they must care about the institutions that cultivate the habits of mind on which freedom depends.
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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

The Epoch Times — For many, the salient point of the Epstein files is the scandal. I think it is more accurately seen as a disclosure.
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Stolen Land at the Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy

Stolen Land at the Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy

The Epoch Times — Our public culture rewards juvenile certainty while punishing hesitation, qualification, or good-faith disagreements.
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The Quiet Dignity of Uncertainty

The Quiet Dignity of Uncertainty

The Epoch Times — The reigning vice of our age is a smug overconfidence in rendering verdicts, an affliction which affects the left and the right of the political spectrum.
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Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach

New English Review —
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The Loss of Liberal Learning

The Loss of Liberal Learning

The Epoch Times — A free society cannot endure without citizens capable of serious thought. The work of self-government demands habits of mind and character that are neither inherited automatically nor created by bureaucratic decree. They are cultivated-slowly, patiently, and imperfectly-through engagement with difficult ideas, disciplined study, and the expansion of the imagination.
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D. O. Hebb

D. O. Hebb

New English Review —
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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

The Epoch Times — Science has always depended on a collective judgment that is slow, careful, and selective. That judgment is now swamped.
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The View From Canada on Thanksgiving Day

The View From Canada on Thanksgiving Day

The Epoch Times — American Thanksgiving arrives each year with the reassuring cadence of a great civic ritual: parades and football, family gatherings and feasts, all culminating in an annual reaffirmation of the American story. We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser.
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Die Angstrose

Die Angstrose

New English Review — There is, in the politics of the Western world, something akin to what the Germans call the Angstrose — that solitary rose that keeps blooming even after the first snow has fallen. It remains beautiful, but its brilliance masks its fragility.
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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

New English Review —
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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

Western Standard — David Livingstone at Vancouver Island University has recently edited a volume commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Bankrupt Education: The Decline of Liberal Education in Canada, the seminal work by Peter C. Emberley and Waller R. Newell.
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Why Climate Alarmists Are Bad for the Developing World

Why Climate Alarmists Are Bad for the Developing World

Audio:Excerpts from How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World + NEWS/VIEWS/NOVELS — Among all the discussions about climate change, one aspect of the debate gets far too little attention: the moral and practical costs that climate alarmism places on the developing world. We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
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KEENEY: The hollow virtues of the progressive Left

KEENEY: The hollow virtues of the progressive Left

Western Standard — I remain deeply committed to the principles I believed once defined the progressive Left - reason, empiricism, tolerance, and the defence of human dignity.
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Charlie Kirk and the Fragility of Civic Peace

Charlie Kirk and the Fragility of Civic Peace

Todayville — By Patrick Keeney The brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking not only for its violence but for the chilling aftermath - the revelling on the left, the mendacious reporting, and the calls...
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