"The ruling class of the eighteenth century were coarse and corrupt, but they were capable and courageous. They made great blunders, they were blind and indifferent to great evils, but they weathered terrible storms."
Sir C.P. Ilbert Parliament
"Our new prime minister recently apologized for the Irish famine. I didn’t know he had caused it. And since we know he didn’t, we can only conclude that he accepts the monstrously dangerous, stupid, and incidentally racist concept of inherited racial guilt. This is political correctness run barking mad."
George Macdonald Fraser in National Review January 26, 1998
In my latest National Post column I ask whether the purpose of "uniting the right" in Alberta was to implement conservative policies or to bury them.
"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. But one may forget that hasty intellectual judgments are equally deplorable."
Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence
"Questionless, there is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue, and of this Economics is commonly esteemed not the least part…"
Plutarch’s Lives Vol. I p. 481.
In my latest National Post column I find some comfort in Hungary repatriating Roman-era silver.