“Political conflict, domestic or international, is rooted in the nature of man. It is a reflection of his finitude, his moral weakness, and his irrationality.”
Ernest W. Lefever Ethics and United States Foreign Policy
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the government’s inability to produce a COVID vaccine is just one sign of a plague of public sector ineptitude driven by ignorance of economics, utopian expectations and mental softness on our part as well as theirs that is far more dangerous than the coronavirus.
“The view that human beings are by nature good and reasonable creatures who can compose their differences peacefully is incompatible with what we know of human behavior in recorded history. It is starkly utopian.... Order can exist without justice and freedom, as we well know, but justice and freedom cannot exist without order.”
Sidney Hook in American Spectator July 1988
In the Epoch Times I argue that Justin Trudeau’s Canada Agenda 2030 isn’t part of some vast shadowy Great Reset plot, just a set of trendy progressive notions whose sweeping cosmic ambitions will succumb to their own vagueness and his chronic managerial incompetence.
“Education, even democratic education, will not remove international conflict, because conflict is rooted in the morally ambiguous nature of man.”
Ernest W. Lefever, Ethics And United States Foreign Policy
In the National Post I remember as always those who gave all their tomorrows for my today, and try to treat it as the precious gift that it is.
“What we learn from history is Churchill’s motto: ‘Never, never, never ever, give in.’”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s June 23, 1997
On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen I discussed why we remember on November 11 and what we should remember. (You can also watch it on Facebook here.)