Whether your political leanings are right, left, or centrist today's guest, historian Scott Miller, will help you understand today's extreme polarization and how conservative thought fits into the picture. Topics discussed:

• Political prejudice in academia
• The origins of left and right in politics
• What it means to be a Canadian conservative
• Rousseau and socialism
• Left-of-liberalism and the New Left
• How radicals activists captured the Toronto District School Board
• The failure of Canada's conservatives to offer resistance to left-of-liberalism.
• And much more

This essay by Scott Miller is worth a read. A fascinating look into how one institution was transformed by a handful of activists: Fulcrum And Pivot The New Left Remaking Of Toronto School Policy

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