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How Canada Should Respond to Trump
Heed the lesson of Thucydides: Only brutality can deter brutal men.
 • Dan Gardner
A Letter For American Friends
It's not you. It's Trump. And if we're being honest, it's not an entirely bad thing.
 • Dan Gardner
Europe gets it. Does Canada?
Canadian leaders still talk like it's 2017. It's time to get serious. Major sacrifices will be required if this country is to survive.
 • Dan Gardner
The Future of Canada
Some comments of mine followed by an essay by three Canadian scholars
 • Dan Gardner
Is It Fascism?
What the leading book on the subject suggests about Trump and his movement
 • Dan Gardner
The Wisdom of Henry Stimson
Donald Trump is burning what better men made law
 • Dan Gardner
The Most Frightening Fact About Trump
He is incompetent in every way that matters. And that may be irrelevant.
 • Dan Gardner
What Trump is Costing America
The US-led international order was good for the world. But even better for the US.
 • Dan Gardner
What Does a "Warrior" Look Like?
Trump, Hegseth, and the "straight from central casting" obsession.
 • Dan Gardner
"Beware of the demagogues"
Reagan warned us. Now Canada and the United States will both suffer.
 • Dan Gardner
The Long, Strange, Psychosexual History of Canada and the United States
Things have been good for ages, America. Don't make it weird again.
 • Dan Gardner
Let's Go, Canada!
A few thoughts about travel and getting big things done.
 • Dan Gardner
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