"If you are still with me at this point, it can only be because you are a serious drinker of being…"

Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb

In my latest National Post column I argue against making the tax code even more complicated and unfair by extending charitable status in pursuit of social engineering.

"A wise observer has said that young people will give their lives for an exclamation point, but they will not give their lives for a question mark."

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #169 (Jan. 2007)

"When we are asked why eggs turn to birds or fruits fall in autumn, we must answer exactly as the fairy godmother would answer if Cinderella asked her why mice turned to horses or her clothes fell from her at twelve o’clock. We must answer that it is magic. It is not a 'law,' for we do not understand its general formula...."

G.K. Chesterton in “The Ethics of Elfland” in Orthodoxy quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)

"How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead [catacombs] to him who did not know that he shall never die..."

Imlac in Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, reflecting on how brief and futile even illustrious lives can seem

In my latest Mercatornet article, I discuss the improbably close link between the founder of the Protestant Reformation and post-modernism.

In my latest article for Looniepolitics I critique a Justin Trudeau press release seeking to appropriate an anniversary in someone else's religion.

"The narrowest hinge on my hand puts to scorn all machinery."

Walt Whitman, quoted in John Stewart Collis, Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body