Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart , BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC) is a university professor, mountaineer, and author.

Dart teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is one of the main and public keepers of the Red Tory tradition in Western Canada.

He has authored over thirteen books that deal with the interface between literature, spirituality and politics, including Thomas Merton and the North Cascade Beat Poets. He is one of the primary experts on the life and thought of both Stephen Leacock and George Grant and their place in the pantheon of traditional Canadian conservative thought.

He is the political science advisor to the Stephen Leacock home/museum in Orillia, Ontario, and a board member of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada. He has also penned numerous articles on Mountaineering.

He is also well-known publicly as a regular contributor to the Vive le Canada website and the on-line version of The Clarion Journal, where he has become one of the main traditional tory voices opposing the "new conservatism" of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada.

elected Works

* "Adam: Romantics, Rationalists, Prophets: A Dialogue" (1985)

* "Contemplation and the Polis" (1987)

* "The Lute and the Anvil" (1988)

* "Lizard in the Palace" (1992)

* "The Marks of the Church and Renewal" (1994)

* "In A Pluralist Age: Contemplative Theology and Interfaith Spirituality" (1998)

* "The Red Tory Tradition: Ancient Roots, New Routes" (1999)

* "Crosshairs: Being Poetic, Being Political, Being Canadian" (2000)

* "St. Matthew's Anglican Parish: A People's History" Editor (2001)

* "Robin Mathews: Crown Prince of Canadian Political Poets" (2002)

* "Busking" (2003)

* "The Canadian High Tory Tradition: Raids on the Unspeakable" (2004)

* "Erasmus and Merton: Soul Friends" (2005)

* "The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley" (2005)

* "Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades" (2005)

* "Stephen Leacock: Canada's Red Tory Prophet" (2006)

* "Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant's Theology, Philosophy, and Politics" Co-editor (2006)

* "Christianity and the Symphony of Living Faiths" (2006)

* "Mountaineering and the Humanities: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" (2006)

External links

* [http://ronsdart.blogspot.com/ Ron Dart's home page]
* [http://www.vivelecanada.ca/index.php/ Vive le Canada website]
* [http://clarionjournal.typepad.com/ Clarion Journal website]