DISRUPTIVE ESSAYS

WILLIAM GAIRDNER has published a dozen books a halfdozen journal articles and hundreds of insightful essays online As a consequence many eager to read his work are not sure where to begin Disruptive Essays was created to help them It is what some call a Reader offering a fascinating and varied selection from his bestselling books articles and blogs The disruptive title was chosen because as Gairdner warns There Are No Safe Spaces In This Book It39s only for those who enjoy deeplydeployed tough arguments on a wide range of politicallyincorrect topics from the failures of socialism to the falsities of feminism to the folly of gay marriage to the many popular illusions about well almost everything Yes everything Readers will come face to face with the perhaps fatal weaknesses of democracy with Karl Marx with Lance Armstrong Rousseau Hitler Mill and Nabokov and with the broader case for why Liberals and Conservatives will never ever agree And more with the attack on traditional marriage with sexing society with objections to global warming with the war between Christianity and Islam with moral relativism and with how there are six kinds of freedom not just one This is a book for those keen to challenge themselves with the clarity and controversy of noholdsbarred debate