Roland Poirier Martinsson
Roland Poirier Martinsson (born in Aahus, Kristianstad County, Sweden, 15 February 1962) is an author, conservative philosopher and radio- and TV-personality from Sweden, who has lived in Austin, Texas. As a columnist, he writes mainly on American politics from a social and cultural point of view. He is a regular contributor to Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen, two major Swedish newspapers. He has also written for The Weekly Standard.[1] Martinsson is married and has three children.
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In 1997, he left the Church of Sweden and converted to Roman Catholicism.
Poirier Martinsson received his PhD in philosophy from Lund University, Sweden, in 2001 for a thesis on the justification of empirical beliefs (published in 2001 as A Two-Front Battle). His books are mainly concerned with the historic and contemporary relations between science, religion, culture and society.
Works
- Kungen och baronerna. Magna Carta 800 år (Timbro, 2015) ISBN 978-91-87709-73-9
- Är Texas det nya Kalifornien? (Timbro, 2014, with Janerik Larsson) ISBN 9789187709005
- Zetterberg. Texter i urval. (ed. Timbro, 2011) ISBN 9789175667843
- A two-front battle: on the justification of empirical beliefs (Bjärnum, 2001, PhD thesis) ISBN 91-89336-07-0
- Russells kalkon: en bok om hur Gud och vetenskapen formade den västerländska kulturen (Norstedts, 2003) ISBN 91-1-301177-4
- Sånt är livet: om vetenskapens sökande efter livets början (Norstedts, 2005) ISBN 91-1-301323-8
- Arkimedes. Matematiker, vapenmakare, stjärnskådare (Norstedts, 2006) ISBN 91-1-301505-2