“I have a worldview, of a sort, and a wider concern. But politics begins at home. The immediate business, and the one that one might hope to understand, is not to reform the world or save mankind, but to make decisions relative to Australia’s immediate needs.”
“Politics” in “A Plot Unmasked” in Leonie Kramer, ed., James McAuley: Poetry, essays and personal commentary
“’People say to me, that it is but a dream to suppose that Christianity should regain the organic power in human society which once it possessed. I cannot help that; I never said it could. I am not a politician; I am proposing no measures, but exposing a fallacy, and resisting a pretence. Let Benthamism reign, if men have no aspirations; but do not tell them to be romantic, and then solace them with glory; do not attempt by philosophy what was once done by religion. The ascendancy of Faith may be impracticable, but the reign of Knowledge is incomprehensible.’”
John Henry Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room” (1841) quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind
In my latest National Post column I say the key question about Canada’s federal budget isn’t political but intellectual: Is this massive spending and borrowing spree based on sound assumptions about how the world works or not?
In my latest National Post column I say the astounding outburst of rudeness from Communist China’s diplomats has very little to do with China and a whole lot to do with Communism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I warn that a world where the West “decarbonizes” and Communist China does not would be a very unpleasant place for Canadian “running dogs” and others.
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s position on climate change is driven not by what he thinks about global warming but by the fact that he does not think about it.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I express amazement that people are expressing amazement that migrants are flooding toward the U.S. border after the Democrats won with a shrill anti-border-control message.
“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”
Aristotle The Politics