“the fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools”
King Crimson “Epitaph” from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask how governments can aspire to fix the weather, the economy and our morals when they can’t even figure out how not to block all our driveways every time it snows hard.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ponder how our then-defence minister could possibly have said an advanced weapons system was “en route” to Ukraine courtesy of Canada back in April 2023 when in fact it wasn’t, still isn’t, and nobody seems to have a clue as to why.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I take up my own challenge from my 2023 year-ender and suggest five fundamental improvements we need in public policy in 2024.
“Nothing in politics, the famous British historian F.S. Oliver remarked, is sadder than the ‘man of sterling character whose genius is so antipathetic to the particular emergency in which he finds himself as to stupefy his thoughts and paralyze his actions. He drifts to disaster, grappling blindfolded with forces which are beyond his comprehension, failing without really fighting. And yet had the difficulties been of some different order, they might have been much greater than they were, and he would have surmounted them victoriously.’”
David Frum Dead Right
“If there are ghastly things to be faced the only thing we can do is make it glorious to face them.”
GKC in New Witness May 17, 1918 quoted in Gilbert magazine Vol. 9 #2 (Oct.-Dec. 2005)
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say 2023 feels like one of those years where trouble was plainly a-brewin’ but the storm had not yet really broken.
“Previous civilizations have degenerated. Previous ages have marched into the dark not knowing that they were marching into the dark. But in any previous time, were artists, scholars, and thinkers so eager to explain that degeneration was really progress?”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 4, 2023 (https://www.undergroundthomist.org/antipasto)