“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”
George Herbert on Brainy Quote (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_herbert_152910)
In my latest article in Mercatornet I argue that the SNC-Lavalin scandal is actually going very well for Canada… because it’s going so badly for those responsible.
Machiavelli’s advice about walking in the footsteps of the great “makes two points: first, that we’re bound to learn from the past whether or not we make the effort, since it’s the only data base we have and second, that we might as well try to do so systematically. E.H. Carr... observed, in What Is History?, that the size and reasoning capacity of the human brain are probably no greater now than they were five thousand years ago, but that very few human beings live now as they did then.... ‘History is progress through the transmission of acquired skills from one generation to another.’”
John Lewis Gaddis The Landscape of History
In the National Post I condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s clueless call for global censorship in response to ugly behaviour online.
In BOE Report I ask how a person not dogmatically committed to the concept of man-made global warming would go about deciding whether its happening.