“The [French] Revolution appealed to the idea of an abstract and eternal justice, beyond all local custom or convenience. If there are commands of God, then there must be rights of man. Here Burke made his brilliant diversion… the modern argument of scientific relativity; in short, the argument of evolution. He suggested that humanity was everywhere molded by or fitted to its environment and institutions; in fact, that each people practically got, not only the tyrant it deserved, but the tyrant it ought to have. ‘I know nothing of the rights of men,’ he said, ‘but I know something of the rights of Englishmen.’ There you have the essential atheist.”

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World

In my latest National Post column I say the strangest thing about the resignation of British health secretary Matt Hancock, for Canadians, is the concept of a minister being held accountable for a poor job performance.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Trudeau administration’s attack on the rights of Parliament is no less dangerous for being the result of arrogant ignorance not clever conspiracy.

On June 23 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss more unmarked graves near a residential school, Ontario slowly winding down COVID restrictions and the Trudeau administration seeking to quash Parliamentary privileges over COVID and Chinese espionage.

“They hate and detest war as a thing manifestly brutal, and yet practised by man more constantly than by any kind of beast.”

Thomas More Utopia

In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.

On June 22 I was on Global News Radio 640 to discuss China’s push to investigate Canada for human rights violations, and the Prime Minister’s surprising but largely commendable pushback.

In 1890 Swedish economist Knut Wicksell “argued that if governments ran deficits then citizens were not being clear information about the costs and benefits of programmes which they were being asked to support as voters… If much of the cost could be transferred to a subsequent generation, citizens would select more government expenditure than if they had to carry the true costs of the benefits they received. This commitment to a balanced budget was not as naïve or rigid as some modern commentators like to suggest.”

Roger Douglas Unfinished Business