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Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!

—Ian King, December 13, 2004

Sunday, June 27, 2004

 

Required Reading

If you really want to know what drives Conservative leader Stephen Harper, forget the minibiographies, features on his chilhood and family, and all that other crap. Globe and Mail political columnist John Ibbitson's feature on the so-called Calgary Mafia -- an agglomeration of neoconservative academics from the University of Calgary -- reveals the men (and they're all men) whose teachings were instrumental in moulding Stephen Harper. The Calgary Mafia's members are often in the news -- most often as pundits -- but there are few articles about how this group of political thinkers and polemicists came together as the intellectual engine of ALbertan-style neoconservatism. If you're not a right-winger of a distinctly Albertan outlook, you will find this all Very Scary(tm).
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