In my latest Loonie Politics column, I say the U.S. midterms were pretty much an ugly draw, their Constitution still works, and life goes on because politics isn’t as important as politicians and pundits often claim.
“This capacity to be fully engaged in the moment yet simultaneously aware of its historic or cultural context was a special trait…”
Electra Slonimsky Yourke’s “Foreword” in Nicolas Slonimsky Perfect Pitch
“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”
G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
In a speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June (sorry, I’m a bit behind in my video editing) I argue that the calamities of the 20th century derived, fundamentally, from a rejection of the notion of truth.
“It is the curse of our epoch that the educated are uneducated, especially in the study of history – which is only the study of humanity. Their ignorance is less logical than the ignorance of the Dark Ages, because those ages filled the place of history with legends, which at least professed to deal with the first things, while we only fill it with news, which can only deal with the latest.”
G. K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News March 22, 1919, quoted in Gilbert Magazine April-May 2009
In my contribution to the National Post’s 20th anniversary section, I celebrate the freedom the paper has given its writers to express conservative opinions and respect the intelligence of our readers.