On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.
“during the International Year of Peace in 1986, a global commission of experts concluded that war was unnatural and humans themselves unwarlike! Unfortunately, innocent people get killed because of that kind of thinking. Many, especially in our universities, now are convinced that war always results from real, rather than perceived, grievances…”
Mackenzie Institute Newsletter April 2002
In my latest National Post column I say the unsuccessful experience with online learning during the pandemic is yet another argument for adopting a choice-driven, voucher/charter school educational system.
An “indignity [that] would incite a stone to be revenged.”
Samuel Pepys in his Diary Nov. 22 1666, about a supposed insult by Louis XIV of France to Charles II of England, specifically dressing all his footmen in a garment Charles favoured as the height of fashion.
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
G.K. Chesterton What I Saw In America
In my latest National Post column I say “This government doesn’t do hard” could become our new national motto as a vast cast of characters across the executive, legislative and judicial branches avoids thinking about difficult choices from COVID to national security and the budget.
“Harry Emerson Fosdick says in his book, The Power to See it Through, ‘There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: “The north wind made the Vikings.” Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves made people either good or happy? Upon the contrary, people who pity themselves go on pitying themselves even when they are laid softly on a cushion, but always in history character and happiness have come to people in all sorts of circumstances, good, bad, and different, when they shouldered their personal responsibility. So, repeatedly the north wind has made the Vikings.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we can’t tell whether Quebec is “a nation” until we decide what that term means… and while we’re at it maybe we should try to figure out whether Canada still fits the definition.