“Human nature, Thucydides argued, is constant and hence predictable.”
R.M. Ogilvie in the Introduction to Livy The Early History of Rome, adding that Livy used that insight as "the framework of his history."
In my latest National Post column I say the university groveling because some social worker in training objected to a plaque praising universities is a grotesque example of the PC revolution devouring its children.
“the remarkable way [Stanley] Hauerwas makes friends by arguing with people.”
Stephen H. Webb reviewing a Festschrift in Hauerwas' honor in First Things #160 (February 2006)
In my latest National Post column I remind readers that the purpose of a government-run school system is to instill state-approved values in young people, and we should support or oppose it on that basis with our eyes wide open.
“With G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc and Maurice Baring, I never differed—except in opinion.”
John Buchan, quoted by Roger Kimball, in The New Criterion September 2003
“only a quarrel can interrupt a good argument”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say fixing Western alienation will require more than honeyed words from the Prime Minister lately pouring vinegar on the region. We need to recognize that the West is unhappy with excessive government that destroys wealth, and that it is right to be unhappy. If that viewpoint strikes you as reasonable, please join the Economic Education Association of Alberta in Red Deer on Nov. 15-16 for our biggest-ever “Freedom School”, on “Meeting the Challenge of Western Separatism”.
“Kim: They [some Englishmen they just met] are only uncurried donkeys.” The lama: “Then it is not well to make a jest of their ignorance.”
Rudyard Kipling Kim