Among the most recent targets of professional assassination is Professor Ricardo Duchesne of the University of New Brunswick. Duchesne is the author of three major volumes, Canada in Decay, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization and Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age. These works focus on the historical trajectory of Western civilization, in particular its critical difference from other world civilizations in its unique impulse toward scientific discovery, medical advancement, individual rights, democratic politics, religious freedom, habeus corpus and the amenities of ordinary life we all take for granted today. As Duchesne writes in The Uniqueness of Western Civilization: “The West, I believe, has always embodied a reflective sense of self-doubt about what it knows and what remains to be known, a kind of restlessness that has been both destructive and productive of new literary style, musical trends, visual motifs, and novel ideas.”
https://www.c2cjournal.ca/2019/06/they-burn-witches-dont-they/
Photo taken in Saint John NB - May 23, 2018
at Duchesne's best-seller book talk event
To this article I would say to David Solway that "they shoot horses, don't they?"
Nothing and no one could ever take away from Ricardo Duchesne his best-selling book status; to this day, since its release in 2017. So the real question remains: why did the university collectively decide to bully this long-time professor out of his campus in Saint John New Brunswick instead of celebrating his best-selling book status and promoting the ideas put forth in this must-read book?
Early retirement and a well-earned rest from the grind of triggered co-workers will be a sweet reward for a 'work horse' and scholarly academic who will be remembered as the the non-celebrity in Canada's academia who kicked over tables, figuratively, in the halls of the status quo..
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