In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that the dominant feature of federal policy nowadays isn’t Carney’s ill-concealed radical leftism, it’s unconcealed but widely overlooked massive incompetence. Almost nothing’s actually working, good or bad, and the soothing spin just makes it worse.
“Why does the perfect social state always seem to be a state of perfect boredom stiffened only by self-righteousness?”
G.K. Chesterton in London Magazine August 1924, quoted in “Why Do You Ask Me Rhetorical Questions? 6” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
On the 9th Hour podcast I joined theatre artist Breanna Doyle and host Charley to discuss heroes and villains in history, finding truth among shifting interpretations, and what it means for us today.
In my latest National Post column I ponder the gulf between the economic deregulation Canada needs and the inexplicably popular wordy but vacuous dirigisme of the Carney administration.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I denounce the Canadian habit of putting up with meaningless rhetoric from politicians with nonsensical jobs.
“It is psychologically impossible, when we hear real scientific statistics, not to think that they mean something. Generally they mean nothing. Sometimes they mean something that isn’t true.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 18, 1905, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Il y a des folies qui se prennent comme les maladies contagieuses.”
La Rochefoucauld Maximes [Réflexions morales #300]
“Inevitably, if death is to be conquered, and if humanity is defined by its mortality, then humanity must go. This isn’t an extrapolation; he admits as much that man is a ‘temporary stage along the evolutionary pathway.’ Just like Mr. Shaw, transhumanists would ‘throw over humanity with all its limitations’ rather than discard their own philosophy. They are loyal to their own philosophy, not to our shared humanity. And just when we realize where their loyalties lie, More contradicts these very loyalties with an ironic admission: ‘There can be no final, ultimate, correct philosophy of life.’ It is a line so perfectly self-refuting that we need only quote it and smile.”
Brady Stiller reviewing Max More’s essay “Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)