"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"
Maurice Freehill, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the bloated Trudeau cabinet full of ministers of diversity and communities and other such nonsense is no less ominous for being foolish.
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.
“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