Gideon Strauss

Gideon Strauss, PhD is CEO of The Center for Public Justice. A native of South Africa, he earned his PhD in 1995 from the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS) where he wrote a dissertation on "The Ethics of Public Welfare." He worked as a senior researcher in public policy at the UOFS, and as an interpreter for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (under Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu). Gideon served as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Cardus (previously known as the Work Research Foundation), and as editor of the electronic and print journal Comment. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Wonder, Heartbreak and Hope, on reading the Psalms in devotional preparation for social action.

Gospel

Enjoying America for What It Is

As a Christian, is it appropriate to celebrate Independence Day? Gideon Strauss, a South African Canadian applying for permanent residency, shares his unique insights about loving America rightly and reordering the holiday calendar.

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Government

The Veneer of Government

Confronting the veneer of "politifaux"

Politics is filled with "truthiness," a term coined by Stephen Colbert that describes “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.” Gideon Strauss wonders what American politics would be like without the veneer of truthiness and challenges us to imagine a world without it.

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