In my latest Mercatornet article I ask people who call themselves rational and civil to look at COVID-19 through some less politicized and more edifying lens than boo hiss down with Trump.
In my latest National Post column I ask how we can be at yet another crucial “make or break” tipping point in the pandemic, and what exactly happens if we “make” it or fail to this time… and the next… and the next…
“Leola had just joined the great company of the walking wounded in the battle of life.”
Robertson Davies Fifth Business
“I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.”
Francis Bacon, Bacon’s Essays (edited with Introduction and Notes by F.G. Selby)
“’Your chief trouble,’ he [a mid-rank gangster to the narrator, Archie Goodwin] said, not offensively, ‘is that you think you’ve got a sense of humor. It confuses people, and you ought to get over it. Things strike you as funny.... but someday something that you think is funny will blow your g****m head right off your shoulders.’ Only after he had gone did it occur to me that that wouldn’t prove it wasn’t funny.”
Rex Stout In the Best Families
In my latest National Post column I object to politicians’ stream of petty dishonesty about anniversaries, events and rituals that numbs us to and implicates us in their constant deceit on big things as well.