“I wish I were as cocksure about anything as Tom Macaulay is about everything.”

“Melbourne’s celebrated comment on Macaulay” according to a letter from John O. Voll in National Review December 2, 1991

“The only proposals in the senate that I have seen fit to mention are particularly praiseworthy or particularly scandalous ones. It seems to me a historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil words and deeds with the fear of posterity’s denunciation.”

Publius Cornelius Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome

Sir John A. “Macdonald slew [John Joseph Caldwell] Abbott with a single phrase: ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘a sweet smile. All from the teeth outward.’”

Pierre Berton The National Dream

In my latest NP Platformed newsletter I say Whoopi Goldberg’s racially insensitive and obtuse comments on the Holocaust might actually help us move back toward sanity on race, and on cancel culture as well.

“Or perhaps not only the seasons but everything else, social history included, moves in cycles. Not, however, that earlier times were better than ours in every way – our own epoch too has produced moral and intellectual achievements for our descendants to copy. And such honourable rivalry with the past is a fine thing.”

Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome

In my latest National Post column I say the only reason Erin O’Toole’s leadership isn’t over is that it never started.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the freedom convoy has achieved all the good it could have, and more than it could reasonably have expected, and should withdraw in triumph rather than stay until something really does go wrong.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s amazing that people still think our governments can make us healthy, wealthy, wise and well-housed when they routinely bungle their most elementary responsibilities including national defence, unable even to find weapons for our desperately undersized military.