In my latest National Post column I say because tyrannies are both ruthless and clueless, the Chinese Communists have no idea how bad they look using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover to crush freedom in Hong Kong.
In my latest Epoch Times column I present the historical apology no Canadian prime minister should ever have to make for a predecessor’s failure to stand up for freedom for the people of Hong Kong.
“The past is irrevocable, but many of the factors behind its tragedies are still at work in the present, and are a danger to the future. The issues change – eugenics is not environmentalism – but the dogmatism and the ego behind the dogmatism are the same.”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
“King James [VI of Scotland/I of England] was a man, the Venetian ambassador remarked, ‘with a wonderful capacity for doing himself harm.’”
Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne
In my latest National Post column I take aim at the political habit of constantly praising diversity in theory while consistently trying to squash it in practice, including in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“All plans of government, which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind, are plainly imaginary.”
David Hume, Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth quoted in Samuel Brittan Against the Flow