In my latest Epoch Times column, I say recent revelations about national security breaches and governmental nonchalance ought to worry Canadians a lot more than they apparently do.

“This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.”

Edmund Burke on French Revolutionaries, quoted in Robert Bork The Tempting of America (and also though slightly less completely in William D. Gairdner Constitutional Crack-Up)

In my latest National Post column I say that, whatever else one thinks of the social media platforms banning Trump, it shows conclusively that they are publishers not platforms, and should be treated accordingly under libel and antitrust law.

In my latest Mercatornet article I say the Capitol hill riot resulted from unchecked hatred in the human heart, and should not be the trigger for more of the same from anyone.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the task now for everyone is to find a constructive way forward, not to retreat further into sneering tribalism.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.

“I will bloom wherever I am planted.”

MP Diane Ablonczy quoted in National Post July 10, 2000 [specifically to do with internal Canadian Alliance matters but a maxim of far broader relevance]

“We must take human nature as we find it. Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”

George Washington to John Jay August 8, 1786, in W.B. Allen Washington, George. A Collection.