In my latest Epoch Times column I diagnose a strange ailment that makes Canadian public figures unable to hear or say words like “Taiwan” or “China” or to see misdeeds by the Communist regime.

“‘It doesn’t really matter.’” “‘Here goes nothing.’” “‘It will be interesting to see what happens.’”

The three things the main character would say to himself, in that order, before paratroop-jumping during World War Two, in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

In my latest Epoch Times column I say one lesson of COVID-19 is that it was a serious if predictable mistake to think appeasing the Communist Party of China would tame it.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a crisis is no time to suspend our habit of questioning authority including in the political arena.

“all men naturally love freedom and hate servitude…”

Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul

In Convivium I say the movie 1917 could have gone wrong in so many ways. Instead it surprised me by going very right in many ways, from avoiding cheap clichés about the Great War to a positive depiction of masculinity. Go see it if you haven’t.