Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring-Summer 2011)

 

From the Editors

 

 

2

 

Biography

 

 

Assassinating Hitler: The Last Plotter

5

Robert Bernheim

The Serious Historian as Gadfly

16

Graham Stewart

Norman Podhoretz’s Achievement

19

Barbara Kay

The Classicist & the Cavalier

26

Phyllis Reeve

Ancient & Modern

 

 

The Uses of Declinism

33

Gil Troy

Colonial Era

 

 

Revisiting the War of the Conquest

36

Conrad Black

Loyalists Through Two Wars

41

Samuel Pyeatt Menefee

1848: Pushing at an Open Door

46

C.P. Champion

Quebec

 

 

René Lévesque as Traditionalist

51

Mathieu Bock-Coté

In Search of Quebec Conservatives

54

Damien-Claude Bélanger

Essay

 

 

An Australian in Harperland’

58

Greg Melleuish

Australia

 

 

The Long Search for Australian Identity

62

Harry Gelber

Education

 

 

Teaching History as Self-Doubt

70

By Rhetor

Literature

 

 

Graphic Novels & the Burdens of Enjoyment

75

Randy Boyagoda

Chivalry in Small Packages

79

Christine Schintgen

War & Weaponry

 

 

Canada’s Ballistic Missile Folly

81

Adam Chapnick

Islamist Angels of Death

86

John C. Thompson

The Rifle in American History

89

Gary Mauser

 

Politics & Government

 

 

Don’t Mess with Parliament

92

John Robson

 

Symposium

 

 

Tory Civil Wars: 1987-2003

96

Hugh Segal,

Bob Plamondon,

Tim Powers,

Jack Hughes & Goldy Hyder,

Scott Reid MP

Contentions

 

 

How the English Invented the Scots

105

C.P. Champion

Film

 

 

The King’s Speech’

108

Bruce Patterson

Notes & Topics

 

 

 

Authors

112

 

 

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