“In order to please a selfish politician, Lincoln had signed an order transferring certain regiments. Stanton not only refused to carry out Lincoln’s orders but swore that Lincoln was a damn fool for ever signing such orders. What happened? When Lincoln was told what Stanton had said, Lincoln calmly replied: ‘If Stanton said I was a damned fool then I must be, for he is nearly always right. I’ll just step over and see for myself.’ Lincoln did go to see Stanton. Stanton convinced him that the order was wrong, and Lincoln withdrew it. ”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

In my latest Epoch Times column I say a new Cardus/Angus Reid survey showing Canadian youth “leaders” want to tear civilization down and start again suggests that they are right to feel that they have been cheated though very wrong about how.

In my latest Epoch Times column I call the failure of the latest giant trendy COP 26 climate conference evidence of what happens when people who don’t grasp the existence of practical difficulties run into them anyway.

In my latest National Post column I honour all those who answered the call because, as the Duke of Wellington said after Waterloo, the only thing worse than a battle won is a battle lost.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue with making Mélanie Joly Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs isn’t that she lacks relevant experience or gravitas, it’s that it doesn’t matter.

“In 1867, Matthew Arnold heard the ‘melancholy, long, withdrawing roar’ of the Sea of Faith.”

Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character

In my latest piece for NP Platformed (subscription only, so please get one if you haven’t already) I deplore the tendency of courts to uphold breaches of our rights on sociological not legal grounds.

“‘History, Paul Valery once wrote, ‘is the science of what never happens twice...’“

George W. Ball, The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs