“One of the most enduring truths is that man is a verb; but what human beings can do remains astonishing and frightening.”
Michael Young in National Review Dec. 5, 1994
“It was perhaps never so necessary as now that we should know why the arts are important and avoid inadequate answers. It will probably become increasingly more important in the future. Remarks such as these, it is true, are often uttered by enthusiastic persons, and are apt to be greeted with the same smile as the assertion that the future of England is bound up with Hunting.”
I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism (and written in 1924, as if to prove his point)
In my latest Epoch Times column I denounce the Canadian Forces’ proposed plan for military chaplains as an Orwellian project in which uniformity is diversity, exclusion is inclusion and freedom is slavery.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it is clown-level silliness for B.C. Premier John Horgan to insist that our health care system is brilliantly designed and crumbling simultaneously.
“history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In my latest National Post column I ask whether Canadians will yet again excuse a pathetic performance by an elite institution because we are snobs.
“As George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, once said, ‘the best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.’”
Chris Kilford in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 12, 2015
In my latest National Post column I say one of the most glaring flaws in the 1982 Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was the failure even to attempt to put checks and balances on the judiciary.