In an interview with Barry W. Bussey of the First Freedoms Foundation I discuss why Magna Carta is still relevant to our liberties and Constitutional order today, including religions freedom.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it would actually be desirable for the CBC to drop its threadbare pretense at neutrality, provided it also gives up its subsidy and sees whether there’s a significant audience that actually wants full-bore wokeness.
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that the Canadian Forces face an enlistment crisis because they’re too woke already, not because they aren’t woke enough yet
In my latest National Post column I contrast various Ontario school boards’ grudging admission that some misguided students might celebrate the Queen with their mandatory embrace of every progressive occasion or pseudo-occasion.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Pierre Poilievre’s overwhelming victory in the Conservative leadership contest, and Jean Charest’s hollow showing, demonstrates yet again that snobbery is no antidote to populism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say we should be very wary of proposals from people who express angry ignorance about our Constitutional monarchy, including “republicans” who have no idea what a republic actually is.
“As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.”
James Madison, quoted by Christopher Buckley in National Review November 22, 1999
“He [Arnold Toynbee] observes that one of the consistent symptoms of disintegration is that the elites – Toynbee’s ‘dominant minority’ – begin to imitate those at the bottom of society.”
Charles Murray in Wall Street Journal February 6 2001