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Russ Kuykendall

Russ Kuykendall is a Peace River Country farm-raised, seminary-trained, ordained minister and principal with BlueCommittee.Org and Ditchley.ca who sometimes dabbles in political theory and more frequently in political practice. Russ served as Deputy Campaign Manager to the Brad Trost Campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership (2016-2017), and as Campaign Manager of the Tanya Granic Allen Campaign for the Ontario PC leadership (2018). Russ Kuykendall is a former director of policy to a past Canadian Minister of Natural Resources and a former research fellow with Cardus. He lives in Ottawa with his Steinway ‘M’.

Mapping Boundaries: The state, commerce, and trade

Dooyeweerd proposed a third way between radical liberal individualism and thoroughgoing statism that has principled implications for how we understand the relationships between state, commerce and trade, society, and the individual.

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Russ Kuykendall Oct 17, 2011

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Mapping Boundaries: The state, commerce, and trade

Dooyeweerd proposed a third way between radical liberal individualism and thoroughgoing statism that has principled implications for how we understand the relationships between state, commerce and trade, society, and the individual.

Russ Kuykendall Apr 18, 2008

The parliamentary Locke and the Canadian founding

Is there something to be said for a constitution infused with political values that creates a way of living together, especially with deep differences over social values? Is the better state one that embodies these political values, that seeks human flourishing, first, by recognizing its limits, and refuses to extend its jurisdiction to the salvation of souls?

Russ Kuykendall Dec 14, 2007

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Good news? A “Comment” symposium

Are things truly getting better? Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin in their December 2007 Commentary article "Crime, Drugs, and Welfare—and Other Good News" suggest that government efforts to shape American culture has brought about a significant improvement in several...

Russ Kuykendall Nov 3, 2006

Has neoconservatism passed its ‘Best-Before’ date?

This generation must be about understanding and addressing foundational things, lest they be lost to future generations. Today, Comment reviews Rod Dreher’s programme (Crunchy Cons, 2006) for framing both private and public life.

Russ Kuykendall Jun 1, 2006 Reading the Bible

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Editorial: Awakenings

In this editorial, we reprise two awakenings: Gideon Strauss’s lightning bolt engagement with the biblical narrative, and Russ Kuykendall’s discovery of the neocalvinist tradition of thought.

Russ Kuykendall Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

What is to be done… in politics?

To say, “That’s just politics,” misses the point. There is a domain of the political, and politics can be a noble calling. Russ Kuykendall suggests an approach that accounts for the political domain, and how politics can be ennobled.

Russ Kuykendall Nov 25, 2005

Rolling the stone over the top

In their book, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, Daifallah and Kheiriddin promote a conservatism that is an American neoconservative hybrid, a conservatism that styles itself “fiscally conservative” but “socially liberal.”

Russ Kuykendall Sep 9, 2005

What would Pearson do?

Isolationism is irrelevant. Realism no longer holds sway. Democratic internationalism has won the argument. But now, the debate is over how democratic internationalism can be legitimately implemented. Through the United Nations? By way of American-led multilateralism? Consider Pearson.