In my latest National Post column I say if we let our leaders get away with obvious lies it will prove fatal to self-government. And sorry, I’m two days late posting it so the column is missing the latest greasy twists and turns, but they only add to the list of obvious lies told after another.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if our government is to get past its baby steps in the right direction on the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong, it has to rethink its comforting illusions about the world.
In my latest National Post column I say when the rule of law no longer applies either to the powerful or to the mob it’s not social justice or any other kind.
“King James [VI of Scotland/I of England] was a man, the Venetian ambassador remarked, ‘with a wonderful capacity for doing himself harm.’”
Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne
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 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.