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	John Ralston Saul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Ralston Saul, CC, Ph.D (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian author, essayist and philosopher.
		Born in Ottawa, Saul studied at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of London, where he earned his Ph.D in 1972.
		He calls for a pursuit of a more humanist ideal in which reason is balanced with other human mental capacities such as common sense, ethics, intuition, creativity, and memory, for the sake of the common good, and he discusses the importance of unfettered language and practical democracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ralston_Saul (894 words)

	John Ralston Saul, "In Defense of Public Education"
		John Ralston Saul is the husband of the Governor General of Canada, Adrian Clarkson.
		Saul has said in the past that "any willful undermining of universal public education by our governments and the direct or indirect encouragement of private education would be a flagrant betrayal of the basic principles of middle-class representative democracy." This concerns all citizens, not only those connected to the school system.
		John Ralston Saul's lecture is the first in a series of events to be sponsored by the Vancouver School Board and its education partner groups over the course of the year.
	www.workingtv.com /johnralstonsaul.html (265 words)

	John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Canadian author, John Ralston Saul, spoke in Edmonton in November at a conference, called "Corporatism and Democracy", sponsored by the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta.
		John Ralston Saul went on to say transnational corporations have nothing to do with capitalism; they would have to be run by capitalists.
		Saul concluded with two final thoughts: that with people living 50% longer than they used to, rather than worrying about early retirement, which can't necessarily be afforded, there is time in the early stages of life to provide a better general and specialized education.
	www.smokylake.com /cathy/saul.htm (1361 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: John Ralston Saul
		John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa on June 19, 1947.
		John Ralston Saul has also played an active role in a number of non-profit organizations, including the Canadian chapter of PEN International, for which he has served at various times as its Secretary, Vice-President, and President.
		Saul argues in that book that the Enlightenment's understanding of "Reason" has been entirely corrupted by the power élites of the last century who are increasingly motivated by the the goal of serving their own self-interest and notions of "efficiency" rather than focusing on the interests of the public good.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/saul.asp (990 words)

	John Ralston Saul's ‘Unconscious Civilization’, by John McCrory
		John Ralston Saul's recent book asserts that the most pernicious problem in the West today is our addiction to ideology and utopianism, which he calls a "desperate need to believe that the solving of a single problem will solve all our problems." The universal answer.
		Saul shows how contemporary definitions of individualism are narrow corruptions of the original concept of the individual, which has been hijacked by ideologues to mean a "single ambulatory centre of selfishness," a person who is free to mind her own business.
		Saul directly challenges the notion that capitalism makes democracy — and, hence, individualism — possible by critiquing the four pillars of the corporatist ideology: the marketplace, technology, globalization, and the money markets — all of which are based in economic theory.
	www.johnmccrory.com /articles/article.asp?this=148 (2508 words)

	The End of Rationalism - An Interview with John Ralston Saul
		John Ralston Saul has been called "an erudite Toronto gadfly whose bete noire is the abuse of thought and language at the hands of arrogant elites." He is perhaps best known for his international bestseller Voltaire's Bastards, a wide-ranging and unwieldy jeremiad about the decline of Western civilization that appeared in 1992.
		Saul: Well, I think that Voltaire and all his friends were caught up in a very close battle, and it was a battle against arbitrary power and superstition — the king and the Church.
		Saul: What people like Voltaire and his friends thought was that if people became experts in areas, you would gradually uncover all of the unknown, and in a sense this expert knowledge would become part of a great field.
	www.scottlondon.com /interviews/saul.html (2408 words)

	Book review of John Ralston Saul
		The ideological split that Saul refers to was born in 1945 with the advent of true democracy.
		Saul seems to think that a phenomenon is born only when it reaches the USA.
		Saul claims that we are building the largest weapons market in the history of the world.
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/saul.html (1631 words)

	John Ralston Saul: Voltaire's Bastards - A Book Review by Scott London
		The result, Saul observes, is that we live in a society fixated on rational solutions, management, expertise, and professionalism in almost all areas, from politics and economics to education and cultural affairs.
		Saul has a very sharp mind, a knack for bon mots, and a keen understanding of our democratic malaise in the West.
		The fact that Saul justifies this kind of social criticism in Socrates' name is troubling to me. It also casts some doubt on Saul's reading of the great works.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/saul.html (936 words)

	Politics \| The prophet of anti-globalism
		John Ralston Saul is Prince Albert to Adrienne Clarkson's Queen Victoria.
		Saul's purpose in the book is like John Cleese's in the Monty Python parrot sketch: to point out what should be obvious: that globalisation is deceased.
		Saul recalls Margaret Thatcher telling faithful and sceptic alike: "There is no alternative!" But, as he writes, Maggie was a weak woman, "someone afraid of that central human strength - that confidence to be uncertain".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5211383-110366,00.html (1808 words)

	John Ralston-Saul: Author, 'Collapse of Globalism' : Moneyweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		And right through 80s to the 90s, there is just endless [indistinct] in which they say what it is. Now that it’s not doing so well, they are prevaricating and changing their story and saying, “We never meant that, we never said that”.
		JOHN RALSTON-SAUL: Yes, but when they discovered it could be run the way somebody else wanted, they no longer believed in globalisation.
		I mean in the sense of we’ve just had 25 to 35 years of a reigning ideology, of an inevitable truth, I think where we are right now is in an interim stage, a sort of confused vacuum where all sorts of forces are bumping up against each other.
	www.moneyweb.co.za /moneyweb_radio/mny_power_hour/546894.htm (1665 words)

	John Ralston Saul
		John Ralston Saul and I began our walk through St-Henri near the old Coleco toy factory on the banks of the Lachine Canal.
		Saul must have thought it was an intriguing place too, because he accepted our invitation to a two-hour walking tour through it when he was in town last week.
		Saul has something to say about hockey, the signs of Montreal's decline, and a multitude of other bits of Canadiana, in his new book on Canada, Reflections of a Siamese Twin.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/112097/news5.html (929 words)

	John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Saul scoffs at the near superstition of the belief in concepts such as "the invisible hand of the market" and the acceptance of inevitability.
		Saul wants philosophy to be returned to the market place where once again it will become inclusive, practical and accessible to the citizenry.
		Saul says it's time for the citizen to assert his position in the process of democracy instead of being undermined and side lined by corporatism.
	communication.students.rmit.edu.au /media/amar_singh/Saul.html (2595 words)

	Famous Living Sauls - John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Essayist and novelist, John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa in 1947 to an officer in the Canadian army and his English war bride.
		Saul launched a national debate with his reinterpretation of the nature of Canada in Reflections of a Siamese Twin, (1997) for which he again won the Gordon Montador Award (1998).
		Saul is also Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (1996).
	www.sole.org.uk /jrsaul.htm (301 words)

	Reading of John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Ralston Saul, novelist, essayist and historian, was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto.
		Saul's fictional characters share similar adventures: writer Charles Stone unveils political conspiracy in France, oil executive Martin Laing joins the arms trade in the Middle East, museum curator James Spenser smuggles precious statues of Buddha out of Burma, and journalist John Field uncovers the secrets to his colleagues' murders in Bangkok.
		Not surprisingly, Saul is involved in the work of many organizations, including the international writers' human rights organization PEN and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /3/8/t8-2005-e.html (695 words)

	Innovation Canada \| Challenges for social scientists \| His excellency John Ralston Saul
		His Excellency John Ralston Saul has won an international readership for his novels and essays while animating and enlivening our public discourse by challenging Canadians to think anew about themselves and their country.
		John Ralston Saul treats ideas as important, not least in our shared experience as citizens.
		John Polanyi devours philosophy, poetry, and is deeply engaged in the politics of armaments and peace.
	www.innovationcanada.ca /12/en/articles/challenges-for-social-scientists.html (1725 words)

	John Ralston Saul: Award-Winning Essayist & Novelist
		Far from being an inevitable force, Saul believes globalization is already breaking up into contradictory pieces and that citizens are reasserting their national interests in both positive and destructive ways.
		He is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of managerially/technocratically led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and his critique of contemporary economic arguments.
		John Saul is co-Chair of the new Institute for Canadian Citizenship.
	www.speakers.ca /saul_john.aspx (573 words)

	John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		His Excellency John Ralston Saul CC Described by TIME magazine as “one of Canada’s best thinkers,” award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul is the only Canadian included in the prestigious Utne Reader’s 1995 list of the 100 leading thinkers and visionaries.
		Saul is a patron of Engineers without Borders, the Canadian Landmine Foundation, and a 1995 Massey Lecturer.
		John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa and studied at McGill University and the University of London, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1972.
	www.mwf.com.au /Bios/ralstonsaulj.html (472 words)

	John Ralston Saul to open Faculté lecture series - ExpressNews - University of Alberta
		Saul, who will be in Edmonton Monday in the Myer Horowitz Theatre to deliver the inaugural address in the U of A’s Faculté St. Jean Louis Desrochers Lecture Series on the topic of Citizen Engagement in a Complex Society believes people should always have the last word.
		Saul is particularly excited to be invited to speak in this lecture series hosted by the U of A’s French-language faculty because of his long-standing interest in bicultural issues and his personal support on behalf of Francophones outside of Quebec and French-language immersion programs nationwide.
		While Saul underlines that Canada is no mono-culture, the knowledge of French allows bilingual speakers a valuable insight into our culture as well as a powerful business and intellectual tool that doesn’t stop with the two official languages of the nation.
	www.expressnews.ualberta.ca /expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=1040 (600 words)

	John Saul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Saul (born February 25, 1942, Pasadena, California) is an author of thriller novels.
		Saul also has a residence on the Big Island of Hawaii.
		He is a frequent speaker at the Maui Writers' Conference.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Saul (103 words)

	The Unconscious Civilization - John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Saul’s work is an easy to read and open-minded assessment of our current political and economic situation.
		In large part, Saul shows that this disinterest is a creation of our own making; we, having given up many of our inherent rights as citizens, have allowed a pseudo-fascism to develop under the guise of a corporatist ideology.
		You are very much responsible for your own education, and a few hours with Saul is a mind-opening experience.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue18/entertainment/book2.html (153 words)

	Book Council Event with Internationally-Renowned Philosopher John Ralston Saul
		Join John Ralston Saul and Finlay Macdonald for an insightful discussion of an economic theory that has reshaped the global economic and social landscapes of the last thirty years.
		John Ralston Saul’s impact on political and economic thought was firmly established with his 1995 Massey Lectures.
		An advocate for freedom of speech, John Ralston Saul served as secretary, vice-president and president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN between 1987 and 1992.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /new/archive/20050805-ralstonsaul.html (352 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Collapse of Globalism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Saul starts by analysing the circumstances in which the globalist ideal emerged: the manifold tensions of the 1970s, which marked the end of the postwar 'Golden Age'.
		To his credit, Saul links these ideas and ideologies back to their eighteenth and nineteenth century antecedents and stresses the differences between the free traders of that era, and the less sophisticated globalists of today.
		Saul's book covers a vast array of subjects - ranging from irregular warfare to the growth of gambling - but manages to relate them all to a common theme.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843544083 (1844 words)

	John Ralston Saul
		Dr. Saul's growing impact on political and economic thought in many countries was firmly established with his 1995 Massey Lectures.
		Dr. Saul launched a national debate with his reinterpretation of the nature of Canada in Reflections of a Siamese Twin, (1997) for which he again won the Gordon Montador Award (1998).
		Saul is currently accomppanying his spouse, H.E. the Right Hounourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, on the State Visit to Finland.
	www.helsinki.fi /collegium/events/saul.htm (490 words)

	Interview with John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jeremy Mouat spoke with John Ralston Saul at Athabasca University's Learning Centre in downtown Edmonton in December 1997 and asked about some of the issues raised in his latest book.
		Saul: The whole purpose of writing a book like this is not to demonstrate that I have the answers to any of our problems, which I don't, but to suggest that there are many other ways of thinking about how this country works and what the constituent parts of it are.
		Saul: In the second or third last chapter of the book I say that one of the major structural errors made in putting Canada together was the decision in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century to hand these enormous Northwest Territories over to the existing provinces.
	aurora.icaap.org /talks/saul.htm (2693 words)

	Amazon.ca: On Equilibrium: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Saul's a bourgeois liberal with a generous soul and a quiver of historical arrows.
		John Ralston Saul's latest book carries on a theme that runs through Voltaire's Bastards and The Unconscious Civilisation: reason, deprived of memory, imagination, common sense and other human qualities, inevitably leads to disaster.
		John Ralston Saul has the ability to identify the core matters that affect how people experience the world.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140288031 (829 words)

	Amazon.com: Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Vintage): Books: John Ralston Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Saul, a popular novelist (The Paradise Eater, LJ 11/1/88), has a vivid style that makes his book enjoyable reading, but a clear sense of what he means by reason never emerges.
		Saul is the master of gauntlet-throwing, and after one read of this hefty tome, you will be begging for more.
		Saul has correctly identified the "men behind the men", the counselors and courtiers whom our leaders turn to for advice, and the bureaucrats, none of whom are elected or held to accountability by our constitution.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679748199?v=glance (2450 words)

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