“I believe most of the great social reforms of our time will remain in history as Follies.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 3, 1919, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that optimism is a psychological condition and generally fatuous, while hope is a theological virtue, in public affairs as in life more generally.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask where the campus protests and encampments are over dreadful treatment of women and gays under in Afghanistan… even if you don’t get to blame Jews.
In my latest National Post column I warn that because ideas have consequences, and a powerful internal logic, progressive organizations that start with apparently non-controversial causes tend to slide into radical craziness, as with Ottawa’s Capital Pride that’s being boycotted even by Justin Trudeau because it’s so pro-Hamas and can’t stop itself.
In a talk to the 2024 Economic Education Association of Alberta "Freedom Talk" in Red Deer, AB on July 7 I argue that a radical commitment to truth-telling, including refusing to remain silent in the face of lies, is crucial to personal and to political freedom.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we want cleaner politics the starting point is to cultivate our own garden by refusing to tell a lie even indirectly by sitting silently when we hear one.
“There might be a clockwork ploughman to plough the cornfields or a clockwork miller to grind the corn. I would merely add the equally human hypothesis of a clockwork householder to eat the bread. Then machines could do without men altogether.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York American Nov. 12 1935, quoted in “Robots” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Canada’s federal government increasingly reminds me of that 1928 classic imaginary hobo’s paradise.