“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”
Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask what Canada, Germany or anyone except perhaps the U.S. can actually do if Russia invades Ukraine, since they have armed forces and we don’t.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock the “experts say” meme reporters use to make liberal opinions sound like scientific fact.
In my latest National Post column I say the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics was a much better idea than I realized at the time, and we should do it again over Beijing in 2022 for much the same reasons.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if there’s really a burgeoning mental health crisis over hair loss we’ve lost more from our heads than just the stuff above our scalps.
The German ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Baron von Tschirschky “was not much liked in Vienna: he was a stiff north German of the sort who agreed with Bismarck that ‘the Bavarian is a cross between the Austrian and homo sapiens’.”
Norman Stone “Archduke Franz Ferdinand Survives Sarajevo” in Andrew Roberts, ed., What Might Have Been
“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In my latest Loonie Politics column I write an open letter to Xi Jinping asking him to put his megalomaniac geopolitical ambitions on hold until Canada gets some new submarines in about 20 years.