"Only through scrutiny of the past can society descry the limitations of human nature.”
Russel Kirk The Conservative Mind
In my latest Rebel piece I argue that sometimes, winning second-prize in a beauty contest is a pretty darn impressive feat.
I have a piece that appeared in Mercatornet about the movie Dunkirk and our responsibility as parents to teach our children history.
"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.