In my latest National Post column I say it's past time people stopped being shocked and stunned at populist upsets over smug insiders and started learning useful lessons about offering real choice.
In my latest Looniepolitics column I commend the Ontario Tories for having a good leadership race, while asking whether they also have conservative policies.
"It is no more admirable to have valuable suggestions to make and not put them into circulation than it is to have a valuable coin of the realm and keep it stuffed into a greasy old stocking."
G.K. Chesterton, “The Walking Paradox,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton
"You say you want man to be to himself what God has been to man. But what God has been to man is man’s absolute superior, and man cannot be his own superior…. So when you say you want man to be to himself what God has been to man hitherto, you mean you want some men to be to other men what God has been to man. You want some men to be the absolute superiors of others. I assume that you want to be in the former group and not in the latter."
J. Budziszewski in What We Can’t Not Know [part of his Platonic dialogue with a skeptic].
In my latest National Post column I say the Prime Minister's insistence on the Newspeak term "peoplekind" was neither a joke nor innocent.
In some sense the French Revolution was “the black desperate battle of Men against their whole Condition and Environment, - a battle, alas, withal, against the Sin and Darkness that was in themselves as in others: this is the Reign of Terror."
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution