In my latest Epoch Times column I say a smashed statue is a sadly fitting monument to a society that lets mobs trample over debate and voting to smash memorials because they can’t tell Queen Victoria from Hitler.
In my latest National Post column I say the strangest thing about the resignation of British health secretary Matt Hancock, for Canadians, is the concept of a minister being held accountable for a poor job performance.
In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we cancel Canada Day, and Canada, because we can’t see that an open society that admits mistakes beats the alternatives hollow, we’ll learn it the hard way.
“Generally speaking, the ordinary man should be content with the terrible secret that men are men – which is another way of saying that they are brothers.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Oct. 8, 1910, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)
On June 16 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss various current public affairs follies.
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God’s command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law.”
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
In my latest Epoch Times column I point out that despite all the inane rhetoric about keeping out private health care as intolerable and un-Canadian, our system depends on it to function while doing its inept best to suppress it.