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.
“Happy is he who still loves something that he loved in the nursery: he has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and has saved not only his soul but his life.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Sept. 26, 1908, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #2 (Issue 75) Oct.-Nov. 2006
“If the real girl is experiencing a real romance, she is experiencing something old, but not something stale.”
G.K. Chesterton “The Real Problem with Sentimental Art” reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6
In my latest National Post column I say the possibly entry of John Baird into the Tory leadership race as a self-proclaimed “true blue” candidate who’s also modern raises the question of what exactly he thinks he believes… if anything. OK. Never mind exactly. Can we at least get a vague notion?
On Jan. 6 I was on CTV Ottawa’s “Morning Live” show along with David Shackleton, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Men and Families - Ottawa, and Nakita of the Adult Fun Superstore, to talk about our work and the AFS’s “Double the Love” fundraising campaign for our Centre in January.
Please watch, share and consider making a donation, through the AFS or directly via our website.
“family: the thing on which all civilization is built; the idea that a man and a woman should live largely for the next generation and that they should, to some extent, defer their personal amusements, such as divorce and dissipation, for the benefit of the next generation.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 22, 1911, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #5 (March 2003)
“Kind of a shame kids have to grow up into people.”
Davy Crockett (played by John Wayne) in The Alamo
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.