In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau’s partisan suspension of the carbon tax on home heating oil doesn’t prove his climate crusade is secretly a hoax, it proves he’s openly a very silly man.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we need to face the fact, and the implications, of large-scale pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and other Western nations by recent immigrants from places where horrific anti-Semitism is routine.
“One can say that, had Mirabeau lived, the History of France and of the World had been different.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
In my latest Epoch Times column I say efforts by House Republicans to replace their Speaker in the United States aren’t pretty, but at least there are principles involved… unlike what happened in Canada.
In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.
“At one extreme is the view of the historian Thomas Carlyle: ‘Universal history, the history of what man [sic] has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.’”
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel
In 1922 Chesterton in London “gave another talk on Socialism where he said his primary objection to socialism was that ‘it would be a dictatorship, with a tyranny of officials in every department of life.’”
“100 Years Ago” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021) [and if Chesterton, a Christian apologist and fiction writer, could see it so clearly, why couldn’t politicians, pundits and professors?]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say much of the left was caught offside on Hamas because ideas have consequences and they have embraced ones that lead to terrible places.