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.)
In my latest Mercatornet column I find good news amid the snarling and sneering about the 2020 Presidential race: Trump’s increased vote among blacks and other minorities shows that the bitterly divisive horror story about America’s hopeless “systemic” racism is not true and is increasingly not believed even by the supposed victims.
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
Eli Wiesel Night
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (re Tom Buchanan who as a star of the Yale football team had been “a national figure in a way”)
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
G.K. Chesterton in Where All Roads Lead quoted in Gilbert! magazine January/February 2002
“Percentage of Americans who say vacationing leaves them tired: 54”
Harper’s Index in Harper’s magazine October 2020
In my latest National Post column I say the U.S. has entered a new political era in which it would promote healing if one side could admit there are very good reasons for people to support Donald Trump, for instance their distaste for identity politics, and the other side could admit Trump is an awful person and a nasty President.
“All purposeful human action is self-interested, in the crucial sense that it aims at goals accepted by the individual, using means evaluated by the individual. Greed or selfishness, by contrast, is a matter of claiming for the self more than is due.”
Paul Heyne “The Concept of Economic Justice in Religious Discussion”