In my latest National Post column I express amazement at the ruckus over the Roman Catholic Church insisting that... communion wafers must contain wheat.

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. But one may forget that hasty intellectual judgments are equally deplorable."

Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence

"Questionless, there is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue, and of this Economics is commonly esteemed not the least part…"

Plutarch’s Lives Vol. I p. 481.

In my latest National Post column I find some comfort in Hungary repatriating Roman-era silver.

"It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy."

G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #1 (September 2006)

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."

Paul Sweeney, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail December 20, 2004

“Religion may very well be an illusion, as Freud said, but then man himself is that illusion.”

William Barrett The Illusion of Technique