“They hate and detest war as a thing manifestly brutal, and yet practised by man more constantly than by any kind of beast.”
Thomas More Utopia
In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.
“Playwright Neil Simon once described one of his characters as so uptight he even had clenched hair.”
Mary Janigan in Maclean’s April 26, 2004
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we cancel Canada Day, and Canada, because we can’t see that an open society that admits mistakes beats the alternatives hollow, we’ll learn it the hard way.
“To know how to wait is the great secret of success.”
Joseph de Maistre, quoted (among others) by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/974934-to-know-how-to-wait-is-the-great-secret-of
“A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a Temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness.”
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers (specifically re the offices of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court)
On June 16 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss various current public affairs follies.
“Strong reciprocators are not altruists.... They’re rejecting lowball offers because the offers violate their individual sense of what a just exchange would be. But the effect is the same as if they loved humanity… Individually irrational acts, in other words, can produce a collectively rational outcome.”
James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds [regarding experiments involving the “ultimatum game”]