Troy Media has also now published my review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s exciting Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada.

In my latest Epoch Times column I contemplate the painfully familiar task of finding comfort at Christmastime despite everything.

“Goodness should be a factor. Greatness is more than a matter of magnitude – it should have a direction, too.”

David Reevely re the CBC’s Greatest Canadian and similar things in the UK, Germany and South Africa in Ottawa Citizen October 24, 2004

In Western Standard I present a review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s gripping Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada, from colourful characters to poisonous whiskey to the crucial role of dynamite in building this nation and the West generally in the 19th century.

In 14th century the English called syphilis “the malady of France” and the French called it “la maladie d’Angleterre”

Chronicles magazine July 1991

In my latest National Post column I lament widespread vicious persecution of Christians abroad, and the puzzling indifference to it here in Canada.

“It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.”

Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives I

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Prime Minister did the right thing, unlike various mayors and others, by attending a menorah ceremony, and in these divided times it’s especially important to acknowledge when people for whom you have low expectations act properly.