In my latest National Post column I explain why the federal LIberals' "sunny ways", and progressives' penchant for "compassionate" improvisation generally, are divisive and leave people feeling cheated.
"Many persons in these days wish to retain the morality which they like, after getting rid of the religion which they disbelieve. Whether they are right or wrong in disturbing the foundation, they are inconsistent in wishing to save the superstructure."
James Fitzjames Stephen in Liberty Equality Fraternity
"Should a traveller give an account of men who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, and revenge; who knew no pleasure but friendship, generosity, and public spirit, we should immediately detect the falsehood and prove him a liar with the same certitude as if he had stuffed his narration with centaurs and dragons."
David Hume in 1772, quoted by Robert Ardrey in The Territorial Imperative
"I never, as it happens, come across a hospital or orphanage run by the Fabian Society or a Humanist leper colony."
Malcolm Muggeridge Observer (1968) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
In my latest National Post column I say the strong showing of the allegedly "far right" Alternative für Deutschland in the German election means you must either call one in eight German voters a neo-Nazi or concede that many normal people are deeply dissatisfied with politics as usual nowadays.
In my latest National Post column I ridicule McMaster University's policy of banning all smoking on campus, of anything, any way, as infantilizing and unscientific, two odd qualities for an institution of higher learning.
In my latest National Post column I argue that the quantity of antidepressants we now take, with shockingly little understanding of their direct or indirect effects, is not cause for complacency about progress.
"The object of philanthropy is to do good; the object of religion is to be good, if only for a moment, amid a crash of brass."
G.K. Chesterton in Heretics
GKC Heretics