In my latest National Post column I say we must weigh the risks of confronting Vladimir Putin's Russia against the risks of letting it get away with murder, figuratively and now perhaps literally as well.

We should "learn from history, not be obsessed by it"

Queen Elizabeth II in a speech in Berlin on Nov. 2, 2004, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 3 2004

"early on the 23rd, we left the bloodstained heights of the Alma – a name that will be ever memorable in history.

Nicholas Bentley, ed., Russell’s Dispatches from the Crimea

In my latest National Post column I say the fact that British millennials are far and away the fattest generation ever is proof that something is very wrong with how we're living today... and I blame family breakdown.

"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill"

The moral of his The Second World War according to Winston Churchill

"I remember that when I was a boy my teacher asked if anybody knew what laissez faire meant. I didn’t realize it was a French phrase. I thought it meant the government was 'lazy' and 'fair.' And it certainly worked well for Hong Kong under British rule."

Martin Lee in CATO Policy Report Vol. XXI, #6 (Nov./Dec. 1999)

In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.