Going for broke
New with Dr. Shawn Whatley and Professor Bruce Pardy, Without Diminishment makes waves, and this newsletter purveyor goes back to school.
Things are indeed happening. The Toronto Blue Jays are in the World Series, Not ‘Sorry’ on Juno News just finished its first month expanded to three days per week, Project Ontario is growing (check out its terrific new website), the National Citizens Coalition racked up one-million views over the last 28 days, Without Diminishment has debuted as a Top New Bestseller on Substack and has attracted brilliant early columns and calls to action from
, , , and , to name just a few.Friend and business partner Geoff Russ has launched a veritable cottage industry of well-established conservatives and libertarians who don’t seem to grasp the concept of a ‘new right,’ of minds that stubbornly refuse to be ceded, that seek to reconcile with the election losses of the recent past, who know the pretense of political neutrality is a myth, who would rather get to work on pulling kids back from the brink than walk into the wilderness not to be heard from again until it’s time again to serve as back-drops in stump speeches dreamed up by the ideologically inert who, if they were to upgrade their prescription lenses, would see that incrementalism looks a whole lot like managed decline.
On that front, we are indeed busy. In fact, I have two tabs open at present, one for this missive to readers of Acceptable Views — who I promise to have more time for starting next week — and the other, for notes to the University of British Columbia Conservatives, who we are speaking to this evening.
When I first founded Acceptable Views back in the fall of 2022, with ‘An olive branch for Team Apocalypse,’ I had little notion that it would one day lead to becoming accidentally important at work.
But here we are, and here you are, and, as is the theme around these parts, I remain grateful for your support and for being able to play some part in your reading, listening, and viewing habits, and on that front I come bearing options.
I had a blast recording in long-form last week with Dr. Shawn Whatley, whose curriculum vitae extends further than Ontario’s Highway 9, and that episode finally dropped today. Shawn is a terrific leader in our space, a warm and engaging communicator with hosting skills I can learn much from, and to be deemed worthy of an hour-long sit-down is a new one for me; up there with speaking in front of 150 people at Project Ontario back in September.
Do join us, if one is so inclined.
In this episode of ‘Concepts’ with host Shawn Whatley, Shawn, an author, MLI Senior Fellow, and former President of the OMA and Civitas is joined by Alexander Brown, a prolific writer, journalist, Director of the National Citizens Coalition, and a show host on Juno News.
Alexander also serves as managing editor, and co-founder of Without Diminishment, a leading new conservative publication founded to better serve culture writing in Canada.
The conversation delves deep into the frustrations of young voters in Canada, particularly focusing on cultural and economic challenges. They discuss the Conservative Party’s past hesitancy to engage in those cultural debates and the significance of leveraging third-party advocacy groups like the NCC, Project Ontario, and platforms like Without Diminishment that aim to bridge the gap between “policy wonks” and everyday Canadians.
Highlighting the growing discontent among working Canadians over issues like home ownership and social cohesion, Alexander and Shawn explore the potential for a rejuvenated conservative movement that does not shy away from third-rails in polite Canadian discourse.
On the Juno front, I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with
, he of holding First Principles, being right about most everything, and who served as a shining example of a man who wasn’t afraid to put his neck on the line during our cursed Covid years, and under the worst of the militarized expansion of institutionalized progressivism.For his insights on the troubling Bill C-9, growing issues of Aboriginal title, our shared experiences at the Freedom Convoy, and a lesson on the Charter codification of slippery-slope DEI practices, add us to your watch-list before game six of the World Series.
And on the Without Diminishment front, we’re holding a launch event in Vancouver on November 13th. If you find yourself out on the left coast, and you’d like to meet some of Canada’s top political minds and special guests, I’d be happy to host you for a free lunch. (Well, mostly free. All it’ll cost you is a paid subscription, starting for as low as $5/month! Click to upgrade at that paywall.)
I’ll be back next week with more words and columns, but most importantly…
What a great episode! So glad you and Shawn found each other. A gentleman yob if there ever was, Alex Brown.