“This life in us... however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened. To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish. Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.”
Malcolm Muggeridge Something Beautiful for God
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we can’t tell whether Quebec is “a nation” until we decide what that term means… and while we’re at it maybe we should try to figure out whether Canada still fits the definition.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s time to take a frank look at what worked and what didn’t in our response to SARS-CoV-2, with the “shut up and mask” consensus that no one should ask questions in a crisis definitely in the latter category.
In my latest National Post column I accuse many critics of Israel, including in the press, of ignoring that the source of the violence is anti-Semitism, and in doing so of being complicit in it.
“How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination. Once in a generation mayhap I do as I have done but now, and slay a score by torture.”
“She” (to the narrator) in H. Rider Haggard She
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Bill C-10 is just part of a larger push to limit Canadians’ speech by politicians who, of all things, don’t believe in free speech.
“the general rule that when people are talking like fools they are thinking like fools.”
A note sent to myself October 23, 2020 on watching a certain Canadian cabinet minister in action
“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.”
Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom