In my latest Loonie Politics column I cite the tragic case of Ottawa’s Dow’s Lake to illustrate the way trendy modern urban “densification” theory is wrecking nature in the name of fighting climate change.
“There was no official response from the Israeli prime minister’s office [to the IJC ruling against the Wall], but a spokesman said unofficially that the court decision would ‘find its place in the garbage can of history.’”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen July 14, 2004
In the Western Standard my latest book review for the Aristotle Foundation praises John Ibbitson’s The Duel while taking issue with the author’s belief that his subjects, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, were giants.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask, à propos of the federal Liberals suddenly proclaimed intention to “turbocharge” housing construction after nine years of muffing the file, what leads our politicians or anyone else to have so much faith in their capacity, and the state’s capacity, to fix any and every problem life presents.
“some [Austro-Hungarian policy-makers] added that Russia would not intervene [in their attack on Serbia in 1914] because war would once more pose the threat of revolution.”
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., in Holger H. Herwig, The Outbreak of World War I, 5th edition
In my latest National Post column, I say Western leaders’ calls for Israel not to retaliate for Iran’s blatant act of war amounts to “Free hits on Jews” and is disgusting, cowardly and a recipe for disaster.
“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”
A. J. P. Taylor, quoted in Globe & Mail January 20, 2003
In my latest Epoch Times column, I advise Canada’s hapless foreign minister on dealing with real, actual, menacing tyrants who don’t share her amorphous woke attitudes.