John Ralston Saul
Canada, 1947
John Ralston Saul is a writer and essayist, and was President of PEN International until 2015. Among his works are Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992) and The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World (2005). Saul also wrote five novels and is co-Chair and founder of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship.
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Man after the End of History
Part I. Faith, Death, and Freedom
6 September 2009
9.15 - 17.30
Het Muziektheater Amsterdam

What Is a Good Society?
Part I. Mass Democracy on Trial
13 November 2005
09.45 - 21.30
Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam

Civilization and Power
Freedom and Democracy
19 November 2004
9.00 - 20.00
Library of Congress, Washington

The Politics of European Values
Opening Conference
7 September 2004
10.30 - 17.15
Ridderzaal, Den Haag
10.30 - 17.15
Ridderzaal, Den Haag

The Quest for Life
Part II. Evil
11 June 2002
9.20 - 21.45
Tilburg University