Barry Cooper

Dr. Barry Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, author of 35 books and 200 studies, and is a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and the Royal Society of Canada.

Why Marshall McLuhan Matters Now More Than Ever

April 26, 2026 Viewpoints
Exposing the True Nature of ‘Campus Investigations’

May 14, 2025 Viewpoints
The Shifting Sands of Liberalism: A Review of MacKinnon’s ‘Confronting Illiberalism’

February 21, 2025 Viewpoints
Alberta’s Sovereignty Act Is a Sensible Step in a Chronically Dysfunctional Federation

May 19, 2024 Viewpoints
Book Excerpt: ‘The Democratic Politics of Fear’

March 4, 2023 Viewpoints
Barry Cooper: Empire of Fear: How the Pandemic Made a Canadian University Lose Its Mind

July 12, 2022 Viewpoints
‘It All Began in China’—Book Excerpt From ‘COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic’

April 9, 2021
‘COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic’ – Book Excerpt

January 8, 2021 Viewpoints
Fort McMurray Fire Seared in Our Memories

July 12, 2016 Opinion
Brexit: What Took the Brits so Long to Leave?

June 30, 2016 Opinion
Obsession With Technology Just Plain Creepy

January 29, 2014 Opinion