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Canada has a majority Conservative party in power, and the Conservative Party is consciously and ideologically Zionist. Many of the Members of Parliament in the Conservative Party come from committed conservative evangelical backgrounds (with a strong commitment to Zionism). I took part in a debate at the University of the Fraser Valley (buckle of the Bible Belt in British Columbia) in the autumn of 2010 in which Marci McDonald (one of the best Canadian political journalists) lectured on her recently published book, The Armageddon Factor. This letter comments on the ideology of the ruling part in Canada, Canada's Bible Belt and the influence of the evangelical Israel Lobby.

This reply speaks to Brad Jersak's analysis of the left–right culture wars spectrum and his critique of identity politics. He offers an alternative rooted in his studies of George P. Grant and Simone Weil's notion of the primacy of the Good vis-à-vis the triumph of the will that undergirds modernist assumptions. Jersak's thesis is confirmed and would be strengthened by careful attention Eric Voegelin's assessment of Gnosticism in The New Science of Politics. What needs further attention on the way of just peacemaking is the important turn from the vita activa to a sustained vita contemplativa as a way of knowing and being (cf. Merton). Finally, using Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (1946) reminds us of the inevitable clash between idealists and realists, raising the question of how, in the end, the owl of contemplative wisdom might navigate conflict between doves and hawks.

Christianity or religious pluralism? A review of Mansions of hte Spirit / Ron Dart -- The way, the truth, and the life: A discussion of Mansions of the Spirit / J.I. Packer -- Christ, the church, and the parliament of world religions / Ron Dart -- Appendix: The Enlightenment, the liberal establishment, and religious pluralism / Ron Dart.

The literature on the right and the radical right has a largely Euro-American bias, limited by partisan academics focusing on the left. The Right and Radical Right in the Americas hopes to be a pioneering work that examines the history and contemporary manifestations of the right and radical right throughout the Americas.

This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject those commitments due to changes in the culture, economics, and politics.