“The great moralists of the past – Aristotle, Cicero, St. Thomas, and Samuel Johnson – all had this in common, a willingness to face the facts about the human race without despairing...”
An author whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine April 1988 [the piece continued “and it is to that company that Joseph Pieper belongs” and I assume it was a book review]
In my latest National Post column I say Terry Corcoran’s old jibe about “Unionland” remains all too pertinent as organized labour tries to drag what’s left of the private sector into the public sector mess it has done much to create.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that delivering partisan mush instead of a specific program in the Throne Speech, and treating a new session of Parliament as just more politicking, is a serious attack on how Parliament works.
“this link between art and the sacred stems from the very fibres of man in all civilizations; specialists in prehistorical times confirm this fact for us, and as early as the appearance of cave art…. Still today it is striking to see to what extent artistic impotence is connected to the absence of the sacred.”
Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages
“Rome is burning, Mr. Minister. Could we at least hear a sympathetic tune on the fiddle?”
A Financial Post editorial involving a forgotten B.C. minister and a forgotten issue, quoted in British Columbia Report November 10, 1997
“Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.”
Karl Barth, Christliche Gemeinde quoted in Mackenzie Institute Newsletter July 2002
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say one major reason the US Presidential race is closer than you might expect is that most of the unrest over race and police misconduct is in cities controlled by the Democrats, in states controlled by the Democrats, suggesting their approach to social harmony is not working.
“there is still more in us of the chimp than the baboon.”
Elaine Morgan The Descent of Woman