Janice Fiamengo
Janice Fiamengo is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008), a study of five nineteenth-century female journalists. In addition to many academic articles, she has published extensively on political and educational topics for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Janice Fiamengo
What Brent McCamon Said
By Janice Fiamengo, Christina Lamb, Sydney Harker, Aaron Neil
April 28, 2017
In late March, Ottawa writer and researcher Brent McCamon wrote sceptically on Convivium.ca about protestors who tried to prevent University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson from speaking at the National Gallery of Canada. The activists wanted Peterson “de-platformed” because of his opposition to State-mandated use of transgender positive pronouns. McCamon, in “Wherefore Art Thou Peterson,” argued the academic advent of so-called “intersectionality theory” is spreading incoherence outward from Canadian university campuses.
Jordan Peterson felt safe when protesters referred to him as a “transphobic piece of s***” during his recent attempt to lecture at McMaster University? What about social scientist Charles Murray, who was attacked by protesters after a lecture he gave at Middlebury College? The protestors were so violent that Allison Stranger, a professor at Middlebury, was sent to the hospital with a concussion because she got between Murray and the enraged intersectional social justice warriors Finally, Christina Lamb, a PhD candidate in the nursing school at Western University and a researcher on conscience rights, saw the actions of the social justice activists at the Peterson protest as more show than substance
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The Hour is Late
Janice Fiamengo
August 1, 2014
Reviewer Janice Fiamengo finds Andrew Bostom’s Iran’s Final Solution for Israel exhaustively researched…and terrifying
In three substantial chapters brimming with quotations, Bostom draws on the Koran and other Islamic texts, as well as on the many bloodthirsty statements of Iranian theologians and political leaders, to show why Iranian promises to wipe out the "cancer" of Israel express a coherent, if malignant and...