“One lesson and one lesson only, history may be said to repeat with distinctness [and that is] that the world is build somehow on moral foundations.“

“19th-century historian J.A. Froude” quoted by Pat Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir in R. Emmett, Tyrrell Jr., ed. Orthodoxy: The American Spectator Anniversary Anthology

“The most important causes, in every country alike, are to be found in general conditions rather than in particular events, though we must never underestimate the influence of individuals like Philip the Fair or Simon de Montfort.”

Bertie Wilkinson, The Creation of Mediaeval Parliaments

In my latest National Post column I say the “Gilets jaunes” in France have legitimate grievances. But unfortunately not legitimate solutions.

In my latest National Post column I say the idea of a government cartel to reduce oil production in Alberta is at least as bad as it sounds.