“All serious political and moral philosophy, and thus any serious social inquiry, must begin with an understanding of human nature. Though society and its institutions shape man, man’s nature sets limits on the kinds of societies we can have. Cicero said that the nature of law must be founded on the nature of man (a natura hominis discenda est natura juris).”

James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature

In my latest National Post column I say Western alienation is a real problem with legitimate origins and needs serious action not mindless anger or mindless scorn.

“I have read that ‘there is no justice until the sword creates it, establishes it, guarantees it, gives it substance and significance.’”

Bernita Harris, whose military family included a grandfather who fought in WWI, interviewed in Ottawa Citizen May 26, 2000

“Brian Mulroney: ‘There is no one quite like him.’”

Charles Gordon in Ottawa Citizen Sept. 17, 2005 suggesting how the former PM should have described himself in a taped interview with Peter C. Newman

In my latest Loonie Politics column I remind people of why projects like Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit are reliably unreliable, taking loger, costing more and doing less than we were promised before it was too late to change our minds.