In my latest National Post column I insist that, since Islam is a religion not a race, whatever concern about radical Islam might be it cannot be racism.
In my latest National Post column I say compassionate, intelligent, constructive discussion of Confederate monuments must begin with forthright recognition that they celebrate racial slavery and bigotry.
"It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy."
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #1 (September 2006)
My latest piece in MercatorNet, based on a speech to the Augustine College Summer Conference (and an earlier National Post column and upcoming Dorchester Review article) asks how a society as devoted to "choice" as our own can at the same time so relentlessly restrict choice.
In my latest National Post column I argue that forbidding "cultural appropriation" would stifle dialogue and sympathy.
In my latest National Post column I praise Prince Philip for his character, modesty and acid wit, three things the modern world needs badly.
"It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." James Madison, "A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785" according to The Federalist Patriot Founders' Quote Daily November 22, 2005 (from Federalist.com)
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius