In the National Post I condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s clueless call for global censorship in response to ugly behaviour online.
In the latest issue of The Landowner magazine I say the SNC-Lavalin scandal reminds us that if government is not fundamentally a moral enterprise, it will be fundamentally an immoral one.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Liberals’ inept response when the SNC-Lavalin scandal erupted makes you wonder what politicians are good at, since they seem to be almost as bad at politics as at governing.
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci according to izquotes.com/quote/leonardo-da-vinci/he-who-does-not-punish-evil-commands-it-to-be-done-275351
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Justin Trudeau and a number of those around him must resign unless they can prove that Jody Raybould-Wilson is either lying or deluded… which seems highly unlikely.
"The great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another, and by claiming to use what means he thinks proper in order to bring him to a sense of it. It is the ordinary and trite sophism of oppression."
Edmund Burke, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things February 2003 (crediting it to a letter from Nino Langiulli of Lynbrook, New York and calling it "an observation of the ever–quotable Edmund Burke with which I was not familiar").