"My usual plan in a new city is to wander, blend in and observe. In Hanoi, I might as well have been 50 lb. of bratwurst trying to blend into a kennel."
Steve Burgess in Maclean’s Feb. 28 2005
In my latest National Post column I say compassionate, intelligent, constructive discussion of Confederate monuments must begin with forthright recognition that they celebrate racial slavery and bigotry.
“Dreadful as it was, I count it a mercy that the climax was reached so quickly.... It was upon us before we realized it. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."
Dr. Petrie’s internal monologue in Sax Rohmer The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
"to even begin to understand an era, we must visit it on its own terms, and project ourselves into its foreign mind. This is almost impossible to do, which is what makes it such fun. In a sense it means coming home, and finding your home made strange, for the people in the past didn’t think of themselves as living there. Like us, they thought they were living in the present. And then returning to our present, if we have learned anything, we begin to see it as another past."
David Warren in Western Standard December 20, 2004
In my latest National Post column I say departing Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall was a good man but not a great conservative.
In my latest MercatorNet piece I say that having it all at someone else's expense just isn't fair.
"Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."
Lionel Robbins
With regret I have decided no longer to contribute my “It Happened Today” pieces to Rebel Media.
I very much appreciate what Ezra Levant and others in the organization have done to challenge conventional wisdom and defy political correctness and am grateful for the opportunity to be part of it. But I now find the tone too unconstructive and think The Rebel has drifted too far from its mission of covering the news from a refreshing perspective.
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