Our Moral Conversation With Students

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Chronicle for Higher Education, 7-17-11 Enlarge Image Dave Plunkert for The Chronicle Most Americans have not noticed, but Canadians are still reeling from the June 15 riots in Vancouver following the Canucks’ loss to the Boston Bruins for the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup. Thousands of drunken fans trashed [...]

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Lecture and Reception with Gil Troy (McGill Toronto alumni branch)

Lecture and Reception with Gil Troy (Toronto alumni branch) Import event: iCalendar General information: Description: Assessing the Professorial President  On Tuesday, October 19, join us for another thought-provoking McGill on the Move lecture. As midterm elections loom in the United States, President Barack Obama faces a complex array of challenges, choices and expectations regarding the [...]

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Gil Troy: Reagan and the 80s Deserve More Courses

By Gil Troy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11-8-09 [Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University and a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center, in Washington. His books include Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford [...]

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Gil Troy: Professors can stop campus hooligans

By Gil Troy, Toronto Star, 3-5-09 AARON HARRIS/TORONTO STAR A protester stands in the Wallberg Building at U of T on March 3, 2009, during lectures for Israeli Apartheid Week. Day after day we read about aggressive student protesters and dithering administrators at universities across Canada, but particularly at York University. Radical student hooligans there [...]

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