"People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors."

Edmund Burke
 

In my latest Mercatornet article, I discuss the improbably close link between the founder of the Protestant Reformation and post-modernism.

In my latest article for Looniepolitics I critique a Justin Trudeau press release seeking to appropriate an anniversary in someone else's religion.

In my latest National Post column I ask why Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake is ducking out of the fight with Donald Trump he insists is necessary.

"As heretical as it may seem to institution-bound historians, the study of history has essentially been a self-help project."

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg in The Great Reckoning 

"History is boring only if people are boring. History isn’t relevant only if, living your own life, you don’t care how other people lived theirs."

William Watson in Ottawa Citizen July 11, 1998

In my latest National Post column I argue that there's no progress on the East Coast aboriginal fishery, and the rule of law is breaking down, because too many politicians and judges genuinely believe they can give stuff away to some people while keeping it for others.

"Vestigial remains of that Victorianism are everywhere around us. And memories of them persist even when the realities are gone, rather like an amputated limb that still seems to throb when the weather is bad. The sense of values lost may be as palpable as the values we do have."

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-moralization of Society