“So prevailing is the disposition of man to quarrel and shed blood, so prone is he to divisions and parties, that even the ancient natives of this little spot [Nantucket Island] were separated into two communities, inveterately waging war against each other like the more powerful tribes of the continent…. Behold the singular destiny of the human kind, ever inferior in many instances to the more certain instinct of animals, among which the individuals of the same species are always friends, though reared in different climates…”

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Letters from an American Farmer

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s time to take a frank look at what worked and what didn’t in our response to SARS-CoV-2, with the “shut up and mask” consensus that no one should ask questions in a crisis definitely in the latter category.

On May 20 I discussed Israel, COVID, liberty and more with Richard Syrett on NewsTalk Sauga 960 AM.

“But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”

The king of Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

In my latest National Post column I accuse many critics of Israel, including in the press, of ignoring that the source of the violence is anti-Semitism, and in doing so of being complicit in it.

“How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination. Once in a generation mayhap I do as I have done but now, and slay a score by torture.”

“She” (to the narrator) in H. Rider Haggard She

“in the Bible, God actively intervened in great battles and wars. And sometimes, to the consternation of God’s people, He was helping the other side. The LORD used heathen Babylon to bring divine judgment down upon Judah. Has God changed? Perhaps He has reformed in his old age? What would a 20th century history text look like if it was written by Nehemiah, Isaiah, or Jeremiah? Would Isaiah see God’s hand of judgment being unleashed on Nazi Germany? ... Was the God of the heavens ready to share His glory with the earthbound emperor of Japan?”

David Kitz Psalms Alive!

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Bill C-10 is just part of a larger push to limit Canadians’ speech by politicians who, of all things, don’t believe in free speech.