"Generally speaking, we do not realize a problem of the past till we realize it as a problem of the present, and even of the future."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Age of Chaucer,” in Chaucer, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)

In my latest National Post column I argue against making the tax code even more complicated and unfair by extending charitable status in pursuit of social engineering.

"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