“The eighth mistake consists in the astounding, yet in our day widely prevalent, denial of human nature.”

Mortimer J. Adler, Ten Philosophical Mistakes

In my latest National Post article, part of the “Right Now” series on “What does conservatism mean in Canada today?”, I argue that it must mean serious attention to the deep constitutional and historical roots of our rights, our security, our prosperity and our open society. And yes, by that I mean Magna Carta.

“the best assumption with regard to the men and women of the fifteenth or any other medieval century is that in essentials they were like-minded with ourselves. We should not be deceived by different conventions, or by contrasts which may be only superficial. Both the pomp and artificiality of court life in the fifteenth century, and the extravagances of the baronial households, often commented on, had a logic of their own in the circumstances of the times; they were far from being the product of men and women whose motives were very different from our own. Life may have been more colourful, unrestrained, and uncertain, in the fifteenth century than at later times; but this did not really change the inner nature of the men and women of the age.’”

Bertie Wilkinson Constitutional History of England in the Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 (Wilkinson was my grandfather)

“Once again, you and your editors show that Gilbert Keith Chesterton is the most important man not living in the world today.”

Letter from William Cassell of Poteau, Oklahoma in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)

In my latest Epoch Times column I explain that in Canada we don’t elect governments, we elect MPs.

In my latest National Post column I say we all lost the 2019 Canadian federal election.

“The pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the end of his civilization he had discovered that a man cannot enjoy himself and continue to enjoy anything else.”

G.K. Chesterton Heretics

“What is a human life worth unless it is incorporated into the lives of one’s ancestors and set in a historical context?"

Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out