Volume 4 Number 2
The Dorchester Review Autumn-Winter 2014
ARTICLES
The Four Pillars F.H. Buckley and Conrad Black 3
"Je Me Souviens, Too" Christopher Dummitt on Eugene Forsey’s Toryism and the "British Fact" 9
Who Needs Canadian Studies Colin M. Coates 12
The Historians & the History Museum C.P. Champion 17
COLUMNS
Second Thoughts about Residential Schools Ken Coates 25
A Gulf Island conflict Dyan Dunsmoor-Farley 85
‘A World Without Islam’ Michael R. Jackson Bonner 112
FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY
At the Front with the CBC Andrew Iarocci 30
Writing ‘In Flanders Fields’ Andrew Beckett 34
A Cree Olympian as ‘Everyman’ Phyllis Reeve 37
ESSAY
The Vanity of External Affairs John Pepall 38
REVIEWS
Explaining the Holocaust Thomas Andrews 46 Review of Why the Germans? Why the Jews? by Gotz Aly
The New Anti-Semitism Andrew Roberts 48 Excerpted from The Modern Swastika: Fighting the New Antisemitism by Andrew Roberts
Conservatism as the Academy Sees It John Robson 51 Review of Conservatism in Canada by James Farney and David Rayside, eds. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
The Magic Thread of ‘Greatness’ C.P. Champion 55 Review of Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present by Conrad Black. Random House, 2014.
Western Retreat & ‘Oil Cringe’ Tammy Nemeth 61 Review of Oil Cringe of the West by J.B. Kelly
Out of the Shadows David Twiston Davies 66 Review of In Search of R.B. Bennett by P.B. Waite and The Authentic Voice of Canada: R.B. Bennett's Speeches in the House of Lords, edited by Christopher McCreery and Arthur Milnes.
An Academic Misfire 71 Gary Mauser Review of Arming and Disarming: A history of gun controls in Canada by R. Blake Brown. University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012.
Return of the King C.P. Champion 74 Review of The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America by F.H. Buckley, Encounter Books, 2014.
Secularization Revisited Gerald J. Russello 77 Review of How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization by Mary Eberstadt. Templeton Press, 2013.
Consultation Unbound Tom Flanagan 81 Review of Revisiting the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples by Dwight G. Newman, 2014.
CRIME & CALAMITY
Politically Explosive Paul Cowan 89
TELEVISION
Epitaph for Civilization Christopher Akehurst (via Quadrant) 93
LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA 48 Gregory Melleuish
REPUTATIONS
History & Heritage Betrayed ? Rory MacLean 99
For Greater Sacrifices? — A Reply by Richard O. Mayne 101
NOTES & TOPICS
An Interview with the Chief Historian 20 C.P. Champion interviews David Morrison at the Canadian Museum of History, October 2014
A Royalist Exhibit 22
Wanted at Parliament: 19th Century Policing 24
The Ante-Bellocian Black (C.P. Champion) 58
Counter-Revolutionary Gaming 97 A Miscellany on "Assassin's Creed Unity"
Totally Bogus Viking Dudes (C.P. Champion) 109
AUTHORS 104