William Gairdner

Former Olympian, businessman, and Professor. Recent books: The Book of Absolutes, The Trouble With Canada ... Still!, and The Great Divide.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.

The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an even more limited universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates.

Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities.

And it is also not good for those awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale.

I have been called brave for my tweets over the last few weeks. The same could be said for those called out Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

I don’t think it will be long before we look back on the last few years of free speech suppression and the repeated career-ending accusations of racist for those who questioned the DEI movement.

We are all shortly going to realize that the DEI era is the McCarthy era Part II.

History rhymes, but it does not repeat.

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

@DrJacobsRad @Royal_College @fordnation Any organization devoted to the medical relief of human suffering should post a statement to the effect that: "This organization is devoted to the pursuit of pure medical science and patient care without regard to race, nationality, gender, or any other human characteristic."

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The most important answer any politician has ever given… ever

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

Ignore the man; love the policies. Trump = firm borders/evicting illegals: US energy independence; urban riots halted: EDI/social justice BS banned; Iran scared; no Hamas attacks; Abraham accord upheld; pushback cheating China; booming US economy, same-day voting only, ETC 👍

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

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[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Do you agree with @elonmusk?

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

@lmwh50 @mericans_unltd @The_Trump_Train There is an enormous difference to any intact society between toleration and normalization of any human behaviour that threatens core values. In this case, the central value of procreative sexual relations and marriage to the preservation of society itself.

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

It’s true “No one is above the law.” But “No one is beyond the reach of the law,” either. Asked in law class to list anything we had ever done wrong, the Prof proved all 40 of us could easily have been jailed. Law can be used as a shield, or a sword: Ask @realDonaldTrump

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

@elonmusk This flawed moral standard is derived from JS Mill’s flawed “harm principle.” Flawed, because it ignores the effect of individual behaviour on the social fabric. Selfish behaviour may please me and directly harm no one else. But no one want to live in a selfish society.

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: New Book Out, https://t.co/NYYGacJ5PN

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

@JustinTrudeau This is an idiotic statement. Human beings can't do anything without first choosing to do it. The question to be determined is not whether someone is choosing, but whether or not what they are choosing is good or bad?

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: Canada Needs An “Override” Clause to Control Leftist Judges, https://t.co/PZkEhqp64t

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: “They Were Not Forced”, https://t.co/tffyh1obG2

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: Why Human Social-Bonding is Naturally Anti-Liberal, https://t.co/jfUkbF8ooL

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: The Fallacy of Human Rights, https://t.co/lzUVPDqCij

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

My latest commentary for @EpochTimesChina
https://t.co/F35k7m98kx

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

@g_shullenberger I just read your piece on Girard. Very thorough and comprehensive. Thank you! I knew the man briefly and was taken by his first book on deceit and Desire in the novel, etc. a Gallic flair for arresting insights

[William Gairdner @williamgairdner]

See my latest blog post: Six Kinds of Freedom, https://t.co/5L130DFHWJ