In a talk to the Augustine College Summer Seminar I argued that the American Revolution brought liberty and prosperity because it looked back to the solid foundations of Magna Carta, Christianity and the Western tradition, while the French Revolution brought misery and death because it looked forward to a utopian future unconstrained by the past.

In my latest Epoch Times column, I say Justin Trudeau is half-right that his job is not to be popular.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I complain that voters throughout Canada and the Western world are not just letting politicians give up on fiscal prudence, they’re indifferent to our plunge toward insolvency.

“One man, John Hampton, refused to pay [the “ship money”], and his case went to court. The question was how far the king’s ‘discretionary power to act for the common good’ extended. The lawyer for Mr. Hampton argued that ‘If the king alone was the judge of whether an emergency existed, and also the sole judge of the scope of his prerogative in that situation, then no English subject had any rights.’ But the king said, in effect, ‘I get to say if there’s an emergency, I get to say what is necessary to address the emergency, and I get to keep secret how I act and spend during the emergency. And no one gets to challenge or question my prerogative.’ Sir Edward Crawley, the king’s lawyer, argued that ‘necessity, as assessed by the king, was always superior to the law of the land.’ How did the court respond? Lord Justice Berkley, writing for a majority of the court, said that if Mr. Hampton’s arguments were accepted, the result would be a ‘king-yoking policy.’ He then declared he ‘never heard that lex was rex but rather the reverse, for the king was lex loquens, a living, speaking, acting law.’ As legal historian Ryan Alford notes, following the Court’s logic in this case, ‘Parliament could never bind the king, since he could operate above the statutes whenever he declared an emergency, even in peacetime. On this logic, [the king] was not even bound by Magna Carta.’ Parliament was furious.”

André Schutten and Michael Wagner, A Christian Citizenship Guide 2nd edition

In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that the main governmental problem in Canada isn’t who we entrust with power, it’s the amount of power we entrust them with.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the recent riots in Ireland are a warning sign about what happens when normal people feel that their core concerns are deliberately excluded from the political process.

In my latest Epoch Times column I warn aspiring politicians, and voters, that the biggest problem with government is that the people who undertake it make no effort to learn how it works until it’s far too late.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say efforts by House Republicans to replace their Speaker in the United States aren’t pretty, but at least there are principles involved… unlike what happened in Canada.