In my latest piece for C2C Journal I take issue with Peter Stockland's blanket condemnation of marijuana in that publication.
In my latest National Post column I praise Prince Philip for his character, modesty and acid wit, three things the modern world needs badly.
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." A.N. Whitehead
In my latest National Post column I say if the Senate can write silly patronizing children's books for adults, I can too. Please send me money.
"Suddenly it becomes evident that things which for thousands of years the human imagination had banished to a realm beyond human competence can be manufacture right here on earth, that Hell and Purgatory, and even a shadow of their perpetual duration, can be established by the most modern methods of destruction and therapy. To these people (and they are more numerous in any large city than we like to admit) the totalitarian hell proves only that the power of man is greater than they ever dared to think, and that man can realize hellish fantasies without making the sky fall or the earth open…. Nothing perhaps distinguishes modern masses as radically from those of previous centuries as the loss of faith in a Last Judgement: the worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope." Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, with specific reference to film footage from Nazi concentration camps
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius