ESR | March 1, 2021 | Thirty-five years since George Parkin Grant's Technology and Justice (1986)
This article tries to gauge what of George Grant’s ideas has remained today. 2021 is the 35th anniversary of George Grant’s Technology and Justice (1986), his last major published work. It was a follow-up to his earlier books, Technology and Empire: Perspectives on North America (1969), and English-Speaking Justice (1974/1985). Grant is best known for his work, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965), written after the defeat of the staunch Tory Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, by Liberal Lester B. Pearson, in the crucial 1963 federal election. Grant’...