In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the only way for David Johnson to dispel serious doubts about his suitability on Chinese Communist election meddling is to issue an immediate, vigorous call for an immediate, vigorous inquiry.
“Lord Salisbury’s observation that ‘no lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust in experts’”
Michael Mandelbaum in New York Times June 16, 1985 [and widely quoted online but not, in any examples I found, with further attribution as to when or where Salisbury said it].
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s fine to argue over whether China is meddling in our elections, but if a large number of us don’t think it matters, we have no country.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the rather vague Wall Street Journal article about a U.S. government report on the COVID lab leak theory very good news because it means the possibility is being debated not cancelled.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask, with respect to Jordan Peterson and others, how cancellation of anyone who questions authority became the default option in our society.
In my latest Epoch Times column I outline what we should try to do to improve 2023 come what may.
“It must be remembered that, though concord is in itself better than discord, discord may indicate a better state of things than is indicated by concord. Calamity and peril often force men to combine. Prosperity and security often encourage them to separate.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England
“The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted as header quotation by Fr. Robert Wild in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)