“Caution is the most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.”

“Unknown” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)

“Publishers do not deny that they are publishers unless there are poets lurking about.”

G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the American withdrawal from liberal global policeman isn’t some weird departure from their geopolitical traditions, it’s a return to business as usual pre-1945. It was the intervening 80 years that was extraordinary and if people valued it they should have been more helpful to and less unpleasant about the Pax Americana.

“It is very perilous indeed that millions of people should have the law laid down for them by journalists who write as if they knew everything, and seem to know nothing about anything.”

G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly April 14, 1935, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)

“Our particular corner of Christendom can now be taught the history of every civilisation except its own.”

G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly December 13, 1934, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)

In my latest National Post column I say while it's necessary to denounce antisemitism, it's not sufficient. We must understand why and how this uniquely stubborn and wicked form of hatred spreads like a fungus, causing rot in all kinds of places including elite institutions.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the federal government throwing money at the alleged bigotry of Canadian supermarkets’ astounding selection of foods while ignoring runaway deficits is at once frivolous and malevolent.

“as G.K. Chesterton observes, ‘When we do translate things into English, they often only serve as a luminous argument for leaving them in Latin. Latin is Latin, and always says exactly what it means.’ While Latin was commonly taught to every school boy and girl in Mr. Chesterton’s day, alas it is no longer.”

Thomas Finke reviewing a translation of St. Augustine in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)