I have a piece that appeared in Mercatornet about the movie Dunkirk and our responsibility as parents to teach our children history. 

"The ruling class of the eighteenth century were coarse and corrupt, but they were capable and courageous. They made great blunders, they were blind and indifferent to great evils, but they weathered terrible storms."

Sir C.P. Ilbert Parliament

"mathematical economics is what is called in criminal circles 'a racket.'"

Stephen Leacock "Through a Glass Darkly” in On the Front Line of Life

My National Post colleague Ashley Csanady hurls me centuries into the past for my view that men tend to be attracted to young women.

In my latest National Post column I ponder the mystery of Donald Trump's enduring appeal to people who should know better... and those who drive them to it.

"Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."

Euripides, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 17, 2013.

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