In my latest National Post column I say the first step toward an effective foreign policy is to abandon illusions about the effectiveness of “soft power” without something hard behind it.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I ridicule echo-chamber media that spent the entire hearing saying every decent person wanted Brett Kavanaugh voted down and expelled from decent society and the Republican Party was doing itself huge electoral harm over the issue, only to turn around and report that Republicans are keen to campaign on it in the Congressional midterms while Democrats want to avoid it.

In my latest National Post column I deplore Canada’s tendency to ignore national security threats including, most recently, an aggressive Russian submarine presence in the North Atlantic that menaces vital communications systems.

"With God dead, there remains only history and power."

“Helen’s Exile” in Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays

"If he’s mad, I hope he’ll bite some of my other generals."

King George II responding to criticism of General James Wolfe, quoted by John Ivison in National Post June 12, 2012