“if we don’t know where we are sailing, every wind will take us there.”
Fred Iklé in National Review March 7, 1994
“as was said concerning Augustus Cesar, and after of Septimius Severus, ‘that either they should never have been born, or else they should never have died,’ they did so much mischief in the pursuit and ascent of their greatness, and so much good when they were established”
Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning
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.
“If I kept my mouth shut, I wouldn’t be here.”
The caption beneath a stuffed speckled brown trout mounted on the wall in the office of Robert S. Bennett, a premier Washington lawyer and fixer, according to Bennett’s Washington Post obituary reprinted in the National Post September 18, 2023
In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.
In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.
In my latest Epoch Times column I condemn the ruinous frivolity of seeking to launch massive new social programs that will fail the same way the existing ones have when we’re already out of money.
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.