In my latest National Post column I say the increasingly obvious crumbling of key public institutions in Canada is proof that social justice is as antisocial as it is unjust.
“More than seven decades after being founded based on socialist ideals, an Israeli kibbutz is producing the most capitalist of foods. Caviar fetching $4000 for a two-pound jar is being shipped more than 5,600 miles away to be served at some of New York's finest restaurants…. Yigal Ben Zvi is a member of Kibbutz Dan who decided to take matters into his own hands. With the help of eight workers, he now produces some of the best farmed caviar in the world…. However, Ben Zvi can’t speak from personal experience. Kibbutz members can’t enjoy the caviar because it's not kosher.”
NBC August 10 2012 (I think - my notes indicate the story might have been from a few days earlier)
“Nay, what is man’s whole terrestrial Life but a Symbolic Representation, and making visible, of the Celestial invisible Force that is in him? By act and word he strives to do it; with sincerity, if possible; failing that, with theatricality, which latter also may have its meaning.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“No man was ever wise by chance”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” (not further attributed) in Epoch Times email December 6, 2021
In my latest National Post column I argue that the real division in Canada is between people who praise diversity in theory but suppress it in practice and those who do the opposite.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say there’s a stark divide in Canada and throughout the West, vividly on display over the truckers’ convoy, between those who favour plain reasoning and those who like their logic ornate, dazzling and convoluted.
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”
“Anson Dorrance (1951-), coach of women’s soccer at the University of North Carolina” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 27, 2011
“Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?”
The main character in Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt