In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.
“As Dr. F.G. Oosterhoff says, ‘Ideas have a history.’ More than that, ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims.”
André Schutten and Michael Wagner, A Christian Citizenship Guide 2nd edition
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.
“Our plans miscarry because we have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
Seneca, quoted by a writer whose name I did not record in National Review July 11, 1994
“Great men are almost always bad men”
Lord Acton (aka John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham) quoted in James C. Holland’s Introduction to the Acton Institute’s 1993 edition of Acton’s The History of Freedom
“There is nothing wrong with old ideas, so long as they are true. And there is nothing admirable about new ones, if they aren’t.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“Any fool can have an opinion…”
Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
“Constantine, sometimes (Heaven knows why) called Constantine the Great, was emperor.”
Hendrik Willem van Loon The Story of Mankind