In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the familiar tone of the weird rhetoric from the Communist Chinese government should alert us to other familiar obnoxious features of that regime.

In my latest Epoch Times column I defend the new British PM’s decision to start a new session of Parliament as a small step toward restoring Parliament’s historical constitutional function of restraining the executive.

“Our intellect, however, no matter how independent of the past it may behave in science and technology, is ever renewed and consecrated by the consciousness of its connection with the mind of the remotest times and civilization.”

Jacob Burckhardt Judgement on History and Historians

In my latest National Post column I argue that the G7 summit was a festival of empty pomposity because the participants had no idea what constructive purpose it had or even that it should have had one.

“The influence which writers of history thus exercise on public opinion is probably more immediate and extensive than that of political theorists who launch new ideas.”

Friedrich Hayek, quoted in appendix to R.M. Hartwell, “The Unfinished Agenda: Some Reflections on Completing the History of the Mont Pelerin Society”, September 1992

Here’s a long-overdue link to a talk I gave at RCMI in March on how Canada’s traditional neglect of national security is even more dangerous than usual in a high-tech world.

“History presents many occasions for citing Charles Peguy’s aphorism that God writes straight with crooked lines.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things August/September 2000