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Patrick Keeney

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach

New English Review

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.

D. O. Hebb

D. O. Hebb

New English Review

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.

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.

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.

Victimhood as Virtue: Pascal Bruckner and the Cult of Suffering

Victimhood as Virtue: Pascal Bruckner and the Cult of Suffering

Britain’s human rights debate and why Canada should listen

Britain’s human rights debate and why Canada should listen

New English Review

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Western Standard — Those of us who have watched once-principled defenders of free expression, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), drift into dormancy can only marvel at their sudden reappearance - this time, to champion the late-night comedian and multimillionaire Jimmy Kimmel.

KEENEY: The Lost Eden: Net zero and the politics of illusion

KEENEY: The Lost Eden: Net zero and the politics of illusion

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