Posts in Government
Words Worth Noting - November 2, 2023

“The U.S. has to decide whether its priority is to help Ukraine retain territory or worry about Putin. Fear of escalation is what the Kremlin has deliberately inculcated and which some European leaders have tacitly endorsed. As Matthew Kaminski stated in Politico, ‘The West has been better at deterring itself than at deterring Russia.’”

Derek Burney in National Post March 22, 2023

Privatize universities to root out hate and idiocy

In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.

Words Worth Noting - October 18, 2023

In 1922 Chesterton in London “gave another talk on Socialism where he said his primary objection to socialism was that ‘it would be a dictatorship, with a tyranny of officials in every department of life.’”

“100 Years Ago” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021) [and if Chesterton, a Christian apologist and fiction writer, could see it so clearly, why couldn’t politicians, pundits and professors?]