"If you put new ideas before the eyes of fools/ They’ll think you foolish and worthless into the bargain"
Medea in Euripedes Medea
"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)
In my latest National Post column I argue that Justin Trudeau is every bit as postmodern and post-truth as Donald Trump.
"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”
Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000
"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
"Complexity is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
John Gross of the New York Times, quoted by John O'Sullivan in National Review December 25, 1995 (with specific reference to inherent tendency of bad theories to be complex)
In my latest Looniepolitics column I use recent NDP fundraising emails to illustrate just what's wrong with the political class's vision of the good life.
In my latest National Post column I defend the superhero fantasy scifi film Guardians of the Galaxy 2 against charges of racist sexist blah blah blah.