In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau accusing India of carrying out a “hit” in Canada needs to be backed by evidence the public is allowed to see rather than his usual hyperbolic petulance.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Peel District School Board purging all books written before 2008 is a worrying red flag about what’s happening in government schools… and I do mean red.
“David S. Muzzey put the problem well when he compared the individual to the waist of an hour-glass, standing ‘at the apex of a pyramid whose base broadens downward through descendants at the apex of a pyramid whose base broadens upward through ancestors’. In Muzzey’s image, every historically significant man is ‘focal’, gathering the experience of the past into himself and sending forth ‘widening rays of influence’ into the future. ‘The task of the biographer,’ he concluded, is ‘to calculate the resultant of the forces’, which consist of the personality of the subject and ‘the problems of the times in which he lived’.”
John A. Garratty The Nature of Biography
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that political party conventions are more interesting, and more useful to voters and parties alike, if they are not tightly scripted.
“‘The history of the world is but the biography of great men,’ wrote Carlisle in 1841. ‘There is properly no history,’ echoed Emerson that same year, ‘only biography.’”
The Beaver February-March 1998
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that trust is decaying fast in our society, because trustworthiness is succumbing to self-actualization, with dangerous consequences from politics to concerts.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask that people apply their vaunted “evidence-based decision-making” to the claim that there are hundreds of unmarked graves of aboriginal kids killed in residential schools in cruel or callous ways or stop making it.