In my latest National Post column I express enthusiasm for freedom in Cuba… and Canada.
In The Interim I reflect on classic books on the vital topic of citizenship only to realize I can’t think of any.
“your fish is not fried fish till caught”
The Chorus in Aristophanes The Clouds
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)
In my latest National Post column I say churches should not get tax breaks, not because of residential schools but because nobody should.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say a smashed statue is a sadly fitting monument to a society that lets mobs trample over debate and voting to smash memorials because they can’t tell Queen Victoria from Hitler.
“As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
P.G. Wodehouse, quoted by Joseph Bottum in First Things #156 (October 2005)
“but that is the way fear serves us: It always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin