“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”

Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991

In my latest National Post column I say the great, and terrible, thing about capitalism is that what you find in stores is what we vote for with our dollars.

“The reply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, when complaining that his sword was too short, ‘Add a step to it,’ is applicable to everything in life.”

Samuel Smiles Self-Help

In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock the “experts say” meme reporters use to make liberal opinions sound like scientific fact.

“Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that’s too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.”

Julian Barnes, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 21, 2002

In my latest National Post column I say the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics was a much better idea than I realized at the time, and we should do it again over Beijing in 2022 for much the same reasons.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the now-routine desperate improvisation to avoid fiscal ruin is not going to end well in Washington, or here in Canada.