“I do not think that we can hope to understand the problems and policies of our own day if we do not know the problems and policies out of which they grew.”
Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy
“In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk…”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
In my latest National Post column I say art galleries should not hide paintings after some Muslims call them blasphemous.
“the acknowledged Elizabethan habit of viewing history as a series of object lessons for present conduct.”
Sylvan Barnet’s “Overview” in the 1986 Signet Classic edition of William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
In my latest for BOE Report I say it’s characteristically absurd to claim that global warming, if it is happening, makes it harder for people to live in the Arctic.
“When experience is not retained… infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign [I know you all know the 2nd part, but the 1st is also important]