“You play for the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back of the jersey.”

Boston Celtics hall-of-fame centre Robert Parish (quoted for instance on https://www.bostoncelticshistory.com/item/the-most-from-the-chief/).

In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.

In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.

In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.

In my latest Epoch Times column I complain about the ongoing, pervasive pattern in which Canadian courts agree that the state has violated our rights, then say what the heck, probably for the best, go fish.

In my latest National Post column I argue that the same libertarian-libertine qualities that made social media appealing across normal partisan lines, and addictive, are now making them hugely and rightly unpopular and we must make the platforms legally “publishers” to put a stop to the raging indecency.

“Previous civilizations have degenerated. Previous ages have marched into the dark not knowing that they were marching into the dark. But in any previous time, were artists, scholars, and thinkers so eager to explain that degeneration was really progress?”

J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]

“Malign Neglect: Pierre Trudeau and the Politics of Indifference”

The title of Chapter 4, in Jack Granatstein Who Killed the Canadian Military?