In Convivium I say the movie 1917 could have gone wrong in so many ways. Instead it surprised me by going very right in many ways, from avoiding cheap clichés about the Great War to a positive depiction of masculinity. Go see it if you haven’t.

In my other speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June, and again I apologize for the delay in getting it edited and posted, I talked about what classical Greece and Rome got right about political freedom and what they did not, how medieval England completed the picture with Magna Carta to limit government in theory and parliament to limit it in practice, and how and why things went wrong in the modern world.

In my latest National Post column I say Britain needs a Tory victory because (a) Corbyn is a loathsome anti-Semite (b) democracy requires you to respect referendum results and (c) self-government requires a functioning parliament, which the UK hasn’t had since 2016.

In the National Post I ridicule attempts by Britain’s Labour Party to blame the latest Islamist attack on the Conservatives being soft on crime and terrorism.

In my latest National Post column I say the real scandal in Quebec politics isn’t that too few female legislators are in the pocket of the executive, it’s that too many legislators of all kinds are.

In my latest Epoch Times column I defend the new British PM’s decision to start a new session of Parliament as a small step toward restoring Parliament’s historical constitutional function of restraining the executive.