Ronald Samuel Dart, BA (Lethbridge), DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), is a university professor and author. In 2022, he was hooded as Doctor of Ministry and Humanities (honoris causa) by St. Stephen's University (New Brunswick).
Dart teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. "He has become the most important writer about the Red Tory tradition in Canada."[1]
He has authored forty books that deal with the interface between literature, spirituality and politics, including Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades. 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.[2]
He is a board member of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada and serves as the Canadian contact for the Evelyn Underhill Association and the Bede Griffiths Sangha. He has also penned numerous articles on Mountaineering.[3]
He contributes regularly to the High Tory alongside the Clarion Journal and The Owl: George Grant Journal, where he became one of the main traditional Tory voices[4] and critic of the "new conservatism" of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada.[5]
- ^ Robin Mathews, "Introduction," in Ron Dart, Stephen Leacock: Canada's Red Tory Prophet (Dewdney, BC: Synaxis Press, 2006).
- ^ Brad Jersak, "Ron Dart and the Red Tory Alternative," Clarion Journal (4 Aug 2010).
- ^ "Ronald Samuel Dart: Mountaineering Articles by Ron Dart".
- ^ Ron Dart. "Red Tory". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ Terry Glavin, "Stephen Harper is No Tory," Straight.com (2 Feb 2006).