Concepts with Shawn Whatley

The Honorable Jason Kenney has spent his life observing, critiquing, and serving in Canadian politics. He offers wisdom you won't find anywhere else. Kenney reflected on how he has changed. He said, "GDP growth...is not...

Robert Nisbet is not a communitarian in the modern sense. He combines an older view with a resolute concern about state power. Nisbet offers the best and most readable resources for thinking about community from a...

Post-liberalism hasn't been tried and found wanting. It's been found confusing and left untouched in Canada. Post-liberalism has been around since the 1980s in theology and at least since the 1990s in politics. It only...

Marshall McLuhan said we were sleepwalking through civilizational change. Danny Randell, PhD student in intellectual history at University of Buckingham, says Western civilization is already dead. Conservatives have...

In France, the progressive Left has invented a new history, identity, and legal framework. French people no longer feel at home. The France they knew has disappeared. Sound familiar? We need to pay attention to other...

Jonah Goldberg never leaves you wondering what he thinks. Clear, bold, and exciting, Goldberg makes politics more fun than should be allowed. Goldberg has been a keen observer of conservative politics for nearly four...

Social media posts about conservative debates aim at the sizzle but miss the substance. Dimpee Brar and Matt Spoke invest a ton of their own time and resources into saving Canada from Leftist nonsense. They aren't just...

Rusty Reno offers insight into "our crisis of solidarity" that I haven't found anywhere else. In his book Return of the Strong Gods , he tackles the post-WWII liberal consensus that Karl Popper called The Open Society...

Profound political differences exist between national and cultural traditions. This episode is an introduction to the 4-part audio documentary created by Cardus: The Nation and the Veil: Quebec’s Struggle with...

The data and demographic argument in support of slowing immigration is overwhelming. Even when people enjoy new neighbours, it takes years to build understanding and trust. Canada, especially, has pretended that...

Conservatism is experiencing a renaissance in the West. It is gaining a new self image beyond its historic passion for economics. Dimpee Brar has entered the scene in high gear. Over the last few months she has written...

Most civilizations prioritize space or time. They either choose empire and expansion (space) or permanence (time). Durable civilizations choose both. Harold Innis was a giant in Canadian academia in the early 20th...

Christine Van Geyn captured the central debate around freedom of expression vs state control and put it into a children's book. As Interim Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, Van Geyn has the...

How do we unify the very different voices on the non-Left? Do our differences mean we are doomed to a soft tyranny of centralized messaging? Josh Lewis has been wrestling with this, and many other issues, for the last 9...

Professor Joshua Mitchell is courageous. He argues for his positions even when they go against the grain of politically acceptable thought. Mitchell says conservatives have done a good job at addressing the debt and...