In my latest Mercatornet piece I argue that Australians, too, owe their firmly grounded self-government to the long and often violent struggle for liberty throughout the English-speaking world. (On which see also, of course, my documentaries on Magna Carta and the Right to Arms.)

An excellent Mercatornet piece by Margaret Harper McCarthy on how religious freedom must mean far more than the right to indulge certain opinions in private, reprinted from Humanum Review.

"Modern conditions are treated as fixed, though the very word 'modern' implies that they are fugitive. Old Ideas are treated as impossible, though their very antiquity often proves their permanence."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)

In my latest National Post column I argue that our Prime Minister's inability to recognize evil and malice in the world is baked into his cheerfully daffy worldview.

"Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight/ But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right"

Hilaire Belloc, "The Pacifist"
 

"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.