“Of all political ideals, that of making people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our scale of ‘higher’ values upon others, in order to make them realize what seems to us of greatest importance for their happiness; in order, as it were, to save their souls.”
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2
In my latest Epoch Times column I challenge would-be federal Conservative leaders Jean Charest and Patrick Brown in particular to show that they stand for something beside office, on practical and moral grounds.
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
Martin Luther, quoted among many other places by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/657155-if-i-profess-with-the-loudest-voice-and-clearest-exposition
Last Friday I was on theZoomer Round Table to explain how we got into this crisis and why starting World War III over Ukraine isn’t a good idea despite all the important humanitarian and strategic reasons for helping them defeat Putin’s invasion. (In the panel discussion starting 16 minutes into the video.)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say now that two federal cabinet ministers have blurted out what we all knew anyway, we need to decide whether to go back to pretending or actually built ourselves a military.
“Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.”
John Adams, quoted without further attribution in Epoch Times email newsletter 23 November 2021
In my latest National Post column I say justified sympathy for the people of Ukraine does not justify abandoning good sense when it comes to a nuclear confrontation.
“Liberty underlies the entire enterprise; it’s not just one more vector in an indifference curve.”
Walter Block in Michael A. Walker, ed. Freedom Democracy and Economic Welfare: Proceedings of an International Symposium