"Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
Euripides, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 17, 2013.
In my latest National Post column I ponder the sad naivete of Christie Brinkley finding it hard to meet a nice guy at age 63.
In my latest National Post column I find some comfort in Hungary repatriating Roman-era silver.
“Pope [a minor-league thug]: 'My superior wants to see you.' Jonathan Hemlock [played by Clint Eastwood]: 'Well, that doesn't limit the field much!'”
The Eiger Sanction, quoted on The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com)
In my latest National Post column I ponder the upside-down modern world in which we seek an artificial sense of meaning to help us stay unconscious.
My latest piece in MercatorNet, based on a speech to the Augustine College Summer Conference (and an earlier National Post column and upcoming Dorchester Review article) asks how a society as devoted to "choice" as our own can at the same time so relentlessly restrict choice.
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Harry S. Truman (displayed on the hoarding around a construction site in Philadelphia Sept. 12 2016