Graeme Thompson

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The mic cut out during O Canada, and the Buffalo crowd didn’t miss a beat 🇨🇦

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生活充满挑战，不过odenit确实能带来活力与动力。

On this day in 1933, Toronto's Ace Bailey suffered a serious head injury after he was hit by Boston's Eddie Shore. The injury ended his career. A benefit game between Toronto and NHL All-Stars was held on Feb. 14, 1934 and is considered to be the first NHL All-Star Game.

@GeoffRuss3 His grandfather, George Munro Grant, was an extraordinary and under-appreciated Canadian thinker, too.

George Grant wrote more than Lament for a Nation, which he admitted was flawed. Setting aside Lament, Grant's entire body of work addresses the dangers that rapacious liberalism, modernity, and technology pose to human life. In a way, he was Canada's proto-postliberal. There is a reason why leading thinkers of the American New Right have praised Grant as a prophetic man. Meanwhile, discussions of Grant in Canada tend towards stale or even crude caricature. In an age where the classical liberal ethos is being challenged by a new generation of national conservatives and postliberals, Grant and his legacy deserve rehabilitation. This is the first in a @WDiminishment series on one of Canada's greatest philosophers and native sons. withoutdiminishment.com/p/rehabilitati…

“All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.” - Ecclesiasticus 44:7

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! A great opportunity to truly appreciate everything we have to be thankful for in our lives, community and country.

@gbrew24 Thank you, sir!

Check out this very cool piece from @ga_thomps

1/3 Very interesting essay by Graeme Thompson that places the intellectual underpinnings of the current global trade regime in an historical perspective. By the end of the 19th Century, Thompson writes, "the long-standing hegemony of... @ga_thomps engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-end…

@michaelxpettis Thank you for the shout out, @michaelxpettis. Glad to hear you enjoyed the piece.

3/3 Among other things, he argues that "deglobalization" is not the alternative to our globalized system. There are different kinds of globalization, with very different impacts on the global economy and on those of each country, and the real question is what kind we will choose.

Re-upping my recent essay for @EngelsbergIdeas on 'The End of Pax Britannica' - an era of great power competition, a shifting balance of power, and economic fragmentation with clear parallels to today's geopolitics. @EurasiaGroup @belferhistory engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-end…

Nice to see my first piece for @EngelsbergIdeas out in the world. "A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace it." It's feeling very 19th century out there. #appliedhistory

“In some ways, globalisation versus deglobalisation is not…especially useful analytical framework. The rewiring of global trade patterns amid a shifting balance of power is, in historical terms, the rule and not the exception.” Read ⁦⁦@ga_thomps⁩ engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-end…

A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order. The experience of Britain's imperial past suggests that this transformation is unlikely to be peaceful. The end of Pax Britannica | Graeme Thompson engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-end…

@heidilegg I think a big qualifier to that sentiment is the 1932 Ottawa Agreement, which established pan-imperial preferential tariffs. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but in some ways the trade and investment partnership with Britain actually deepened in the '30s and '40s.

1930s Canada turned towards the south and away from Britain for trade. Under Robertson negotiated with Washington seeing trade as an affirmation of sovereignty. “Trade was Robertson’s functionalism, his collective security, his foreign aid. It was his Colombo Plan and his United Nations.”

We will never forget the brave Newfoundlanders who fought on this day at Beaumont-Hamel. Some 800 Newfoundlanders went into battle that day. Only 68 were able to answer the roll call the following day. We will remember them.

“We, with our Canadian fellow citizens and our American allies, against the tremendous military might of Germany, have crossed our English Channel in the service of freedom.” -- Clement Atlee, June 1944

Happy Victoria Day! We honour the monarch’s official birthday by hoisting the Royal Union Flag on some flagpoles at Parliament. Next week, Canadians will have the privilege of welcoming His Majesty the King for the opening of Parliament. 🇨🇦🇬🇧