“I am inclined to think tradition has more of the sobriety of truth.”
G.K. Chesterton in America July 23, 1927, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2022) [I know I’ve been leaning heavily on GKC in recent items, but when someone says so many prescient things it’s a sign worth noting]
In my latest National Post column I take readers on a guided tour of the dismal wasteland that is Xi Jinping Thought.
“Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective.”
Titus Livius (aka “Livy”) The Early History of Rome
In my latest Epoch Times column I challenge BoC governor “Tiff” Macklem to tell us what he thinks causes inflation, the thing it’s his #onejob to prevent and which is currently very unprevented in Canada.
“An obvious point about history is that if we take a sanctimonious view of such matters as Japanese internment, and insist that we’re so much better than people back (ugh) then, by depriving us of the ability to understand how other people made mistakes it deprives us of the ability to understand how we might.”
Another of mine, from September 5, 2002.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that when (and if) Mélanie Joly cobbles together an “Indo-Pacific” strategy for Canada it will be a feeble pastiche of woke clichés
In an interview with Barry W. Bussey of the First Freedoms Foundation I discuss why Magna Carta is still relevant to our liberties and Constitutional order today, including religions freedom.
“People tell me they get depressed reading about the Middle East. Well, I get depressed writing about it. There’s supposed to be progress in human history, but the Middle East is moving backward.”
Leonard Stern in Ottawa Citizen January 17, 2009