In my latest National Post column I say Justin Trudeau’s reflexive effort to bypass parliamentary self-government in a crisis was dangerous as well as foolish.
In my latest National Post column I say it’s ridiculous for politicians and commentators to claim the police are not answerable to the people via the politicians we elect.
“The common belief of the age [the 18th century] that human nature was forever the same referred essentially to the raw biological nature upon which the environment operated.”
Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787.
In my latest National Post column I say safe injection sites are too timid an answer to the harm done by the war on drugs.
In my other speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June, and again I apologize for the delay in getting it edited and posted, I talked about what classical Greece and Rome got right about political freedom and what they did not, how medieval England completed the picture with Magna Carta to limit government in theory and parliament to limit it in practice, and how and why things went wrong in the modern world.