Social:The Dorchester Review
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| Editors | C.P. Champion, Michael R. Jackson Bonner, James W.J. Bowden, F.H. Buckley, David Twiston Davies, Philip Marchand, John Pepall, Phyllis Reeve, Alastair Sweeny[1][2] |
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| Categories | History and culture |
| Frequency | Semi-annual |
| Circulation | 800 |
| Founder | C.P. Champion |
| First issue | June 1, 2011 |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1925-7600 |
The Dorchester Review is a semi-annual, semi-academic "journal"[3] of history and historical commentary founded in 2011 and published in Ottawa, Canada . The magazine describes itself as a non-partisan but "robustly polemical" outlet for "elements of tradition and culture inherent to Canadian experience that fail to conform to a stridently progressivist narrative."
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The publication is named after Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Governor of the Province of Quebec and British North America. The choice of "a bewigged British soldier, an ... unapologetic colonial governor from the pre-democratic era" is intended to underscore the magazine's belief that "history consists of more than a parade of secular modern progressives."[4] Its core readership consists of 50% professionals and businesspeople, 10% academics, 15-20% politicians, and 20-25% eclectic readers.[5]
Editorial stance
National Post columnist Barbara Kay described the Dorchester Review as "politically incorrect and iconoclastic" writing which resists "the prevailing progressivist view that historians must choose between a right and wrong side of history," without catering to a specific ideology. Jonathan Kay has described it as "the only high-level publication in Canada that examines our history and traditions without even a passing nod to academic fashions and identity politics."[5] The Literary Review of Canada cited The Dorchester Review among works that "might...prompt readers to rethink the way in which not all liberals are Liberals and not all conservatives sound like the Conservatives."[6] Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper was observed reading the magazine in Canada's House of Commons, contributing to its image as a right-wing publication.[5] Founding editor C.P. Champion is a former senior advisor to Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney, and the author of The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964-1968 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010) and Relentless Struggle: Saving the Army Reserve 1995-2019 published by Durnovaria Press,[7] which Champion founded in 2019.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ↑ Masthead of Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2019 (print edition).
- ↑ https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/pages/about-the-author
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}". https://twitter.com/DorchesterRev. - ↑ The Dorchester Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2011, pp. 2-3.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "The Dorchester Review — the little magazine that can". National Post. 24 May 2016. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-the-dorchester-review-the-little-magazine-that-can. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ↑ Jerry White (June 2013). "Political Inheritance". Literary Review of Canada. http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2013/06/political-inheritance/. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ↑ Gil Taylor (19 September 2019). "The battle to save the Canadian Forces' army reserve". Toronto Sun. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/taylor-the-battle-to-save-the-canadian-forces-army-reserve. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
External links
Notable contributors
- George Jonas
- Kevin Myers (Ireland)
- Gregory Melleuish (Australia)
- Barbara Kay
- Andrew Roberts (historian)
- Conrad Black
- John Howard (Australia)
- Alastair Sweeny
- Roger Noriega
- Gil Troy
- Paul Hollander
- Richard Lebrun
- Gary Mauser
- David Frum
- Serge Joyal
- John O’Sullivan (columnist)
- Hugh Bicheno
- Julian Thompson
- Barry Gough
- J.L. Granatstein
- Jonathan Kay
- Andrew P.W. Bennett
- Noah Richler
- Lionel Albert
- Paul Cowan
- Pat Stogran
- Ian Brodie
- Randall Hansen
- F.H. Buckley
- Kevin Gutzman
- Jonathon Riley
- Rory MacLean
- Andrew Godefroy
- Jürgen Rüttgers (Germany)
- Randy Boyagoda
- Tom Flanagan
- Frank Dikötter (Hong Kong)
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