Posts in Values
Words Worth Noting - October 23, 2025

“Yet, while former [First World War] soldiers suffered from a high incidence of neurasthenia and sexual impotence, they realized that the war, in the words of Josée Germaine, was ‘the quivering axis of all human history.’ If the war as a whole had no objective meaning, then invariably all human history was telescoped into each man's experience; every person was the sum total of history. Rather than being a social experience, a matter of documentable reality, history was individual nightmare, or even, as the Dadaists insisted, madness. One is again reminded of Nietzsche’s statement, on the very edge of his complete mental collapse, that he was ‘every name in history.’”

Modris Eksteins Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Era

Britain's revolt of the elites jumps the shark

In my latest National Post column I express hope that Britain’s National Health Service praising cousin marriage to preemptively placate Islamist immigrants will instead represent a positive turning point as regular people simply refuse to tolerate such idiotic disloyalty and cultural suicide any longer.

Words Worth Noting - September 24, 2025

“In 1870, the Prussian army had captured the French emperor, Napoleon III, who followed Charles X, Metternich, and Louis-Philippe into exile in London.”

Conrad Black Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present [but he does not take what I consider to be the obvious point that all these continentals who sneer at the English-speaking world flee to it when in trouble, knowing it is the true and only home of liberty]

Words Worth Noting - September 19, 2025

“One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you’re right but not enough about the subject to know you’re wrong.”

Classic self-annihilating relativism from Neil deGrasse Tyson at the start of an ad for his masterclass that I’ve seen umpteen times on YouTube including specifically on January 24, 2025 on one of our own CDN videos.