On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.
In my latest National Post column I say the unsuccessful experience with online learning during the pandemic is yet another argument for adopting a choice-driven, voucher/charter school educational system.
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
G.K. Chesterton What I Saw In America
“So prevailing is the disposition of man to quarrel and shed blood, so prone is he to divisions and parties, that even the ancient natives of this little spot [Nantucket Island] were separated into two communities, inveterately waging war against each other like the more powerful tribes of the continent…. Behold the singular destiny of the human kind, ever inferior in many instances to the more certain instinct of animals, among which the individuals of the same species are always friends, though reared in different climates…”
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Letters from an American Farmer
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
James Byrnes, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2007
On May 20 I discussed Israel, COVID, liberty and more with Richard Syrett on NewsTalk Sauga 960 AM.
In my latest National Post column I accuse many critics of Israel, including in the press, of ignoring that the source of the violence is anti-Semitism, and in doing so of being complicit in it.
In my latest National Post column, I say the Prime Minister’s real problem in fighting to keep Enbridge 5 open is that he actually believes fossil fuels are worse than useless.