Ron Dart


Ronald Samuel Dart, BA, DCS, MCS, MA, is a university professor and author. In 2022, he was hooded as Doctor of Ministry and Humanities by St. Stephen's University.
Dart teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. "He has become the most important writer about the Red Tory tradition in Canada."
He has authored forty books that deal with the interface between literature, spirituality and politics, including Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades. He is one of the primary experts on the life and thought of both Stephen Leacock and George Grant and their place in the pantheon of traditional Canadian conservative thought.
He is a board member of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada and serves as the Canadian contact for the Evelyn Underhill Association and the Bede Griffiths Sangha. He has also penned numerous articles on Mountaineering.
He contributes regularly to the High Tory alongside the Clarion Journal and The Owl: George Grant Journal, where he became one of the main traditional Tory voices and critic of the "new conservatism" of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada.

Selected works

  • The North American High Tory Tradition--revised edition
  • The Scholar-Gipsy: Thrownness, Memoricide and the Great Tradition: Volumes 1-II
  • Stephen Leacock: Canada's Red Tory Prophet
  • Scrutinizing Scruton: Canadian High Toryism and Scrutonia
  • The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley
  • Roderick Haig-Brown: Canada's Green Prophet
  • The Gospel According to Hermes: Intimations of Christianity in Greek Myth, Poetry & Philosophy
  • Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson: A Christian Perspective
  • Hermann Hesse: Phoenix Arising
  • Christianity and Pluralism
  • Clarion Call of Love: Essays in Gratitude to Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
  • George P. Grant: Athena's Aviary, Essays by Ron Dart and Brad Jersak
  • Erasmus: Wild Bird
  • The North American High Tory Tradition
  • C.S. Lewis and Bede Griffiths: Chief Companions
  • Thomas Merton and the Counterculture: A Golden String: edited
  • White Gulls & Wild Birds: Essays on C. S. Lewis, Inklings and Friends & Thomas Merton: edited
  • Canadian Christian Zionism: A Tangled Tale.
  • Roderick Haig-Brown: Canada’s Green Prophet.
  • Being the Church in Abbotsford: Reflective Essays.
  • Keepers of the Flame: Canadian Red Toryism.
  • George P. Grant: Canada's Lone Wolf: Essays in Political Philosophy.
  • George Grant: Spiders and Bees.
  • Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades, 2nd edition.
  • Mountaineering and the Humanities.
  • The Eagle and the Ox: Contemplation, the Church and Politics.
  • Christianity and the Symphony of Living Faiths.
  • Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy, and Politics, co-edited,.
  • Stephen Leacock: Canada’s Red Tory Prophet.
  • The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley.
  • The Spirituality of John Cassian.
  • Erasmus and Merton: Soul Friends.
  • Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades, 1st edition.
  • The Canadian High Tory Tradition: Raids on the Unspeakable.
  • Busking.
  • Robin Mathews: Crown Prince of Canadian Political Poets.
  • St. Matthew’s Parish: A People’s History.
  • Crosshairs: Being Poetic, Being Political, Being Canadian.
  • The Red Tory Tradition: Ancient Routes, New Routes.
  • In A Pluralist Age.
  • The Marks of the Church and Renewal.
  • Lizard in the Palace.
  • The Lute and the Anvil.
  • Contemplation and the Polis.
  • Adam: Romantics, Rationalists, Prophets: A Dialogue.