In my latest Epoch Times column I reflect for Remembrance Day on the moving ritual of sounding the Last Post at the Menin Gate every single night for 77 years and counting.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue with making Mélanie Joly Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs isn’t that she lacks relevant experience or gravitas, it’s that it doesn’t matter.
In my latest National Post column I say thinking you’ll win the drug war by eliminating one major dealer is like thinking you’ll get people to stop eating by closing their current grocery store.
“If you cannot prevent your enemies from swallowing you whole, at least you must do what you can to prevent them from digesting you.”
“Rousseau’s famous charge to the Poles” quoted by George Weigel in Witness to Hope (saying that in World War II it “was tested as never before.”)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the absence of foreign policy and national security from the current election, and from the minds of too many voters throughout the democratic world.
In my latest Epoch Times column I deplore the spectacle of the Trudeau ministry treating the tragically botched evacuation from Kabul airport as yet another occasion for lavish self-praise.
In my latest National Post column I summon the shade of former U.S. President and master of Realpolitik Richard M. Nixon to discuss the ominous parallel implications of the collapse of the Afghan and Vietnamese missions for Western credibility in the world.
“A hasty general is the worst of generals nowadays; the best is a sort of von Moltke, who is passive if any man ever was passive; who is ‘silent in seven languages’…”
Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics