“Nobody really believes in anything anymore, and everyone spends his life in frenzied work and frenzied play so as not to face the fact, not to look into the abyss.”
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind (discussing Nietzsche’s views)
In my latest National Post column I say the university groveling because some social worker in training objected to a plaque praising universities is a grotesque example of the PC revolution devouring its children.
In my latest National Post column I say “How dare you?” to those who pretend not to see what’s happening in Hong Kong.
“the remarkable way [Stanley] Hauerwas makes friends by arguing with people.”
Stephen H. Webb reviewing a Festschrift in Hauerwas' honor in First Things #160 (February 2006)
In my latest National Post column I remind readers that the purpose of a government-run school system is to instill state-approved values in young people, and we should support or oppose it on that basis with our eyes wide open.
“All serious political and moral philosophy, and thus any serious social inquiry, must begin with an understanding of human nature. Though society and its institutions shape man, man’s nature sets limits on the kinds of societies we can have. Cicero said that the nature of law must be founded on the nature of man (a natura hominis discenda est natura juris).”
James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature
“With G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc and Maurice Baring, I never differed—except in opinion.”
John Buchan, quoted by Roger Kimball, in The New Criterion September 2003
In my latest National Post column I say if the press take a “UFO expert” seriously we contribute to a general atmosphere of idiocy in public discussion.