“Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvellous deeds – some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians – may not be without their glory; and especially to show why the two peoples fought with each other.”
First sentence of Herodotus The Histories
In my latest Epoch Times column I reflect for Remembrance Day on the moving ritual of sounding the Last Post at the Menin Gate every single night for 77 years and counting.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the only thing more foolish than Doug Ford raising the minimum wage was his explanation for doing so.
“But as Harry Truman used to say, the only thing new is the history we have not read yet.”
Hadley Arkes in National Review August 3, 1992
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue with making Mélanie Joly Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs isn’t that she lacks relevant experience or gravitas, it’s that it doesn’t matter.
“In 1867, Matthew Arnold heard the ‘melancholy, long, withdrawing roar’ of the Sea of Faith.”
Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
In my latest piece for NP Platformed (subscription only, so please get one if you haven’t already) I deplore the tendency of courts to uphold breaches of our rights on sociological not legal grounds.
“The lack of the fabulous may make my work dull. But I shall be satisfied if it be thought useful by those who wish to know the exact character of events now past, which, human nature being what it is, will recur in similar or analogous form.”
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, cited by Robert L. Formaini in Foreword to Garet Garrett and Murray N. Rothbard, The Great Depression and New Deal Monetary Policy