"As Mr. Pond knows, the last lesson of the wise man is that the fool is sometimes right."

Steve Miller in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

"a strange creature, hard to swallow and impossible to digest."

Detective Nero Wolfe re one of the people involved in a case, in Rex Stout The Golden Spiders

In my latest Mercatornet article, I discuss the improbably close link between the founder of the Protestant Reformation and post-modernism.

In my latest article for Looniepolitics I critique a Justin Trudeau press release seeking to appropriate an anniversary in someone else's religion.

"The narrowest hinge on my hand puts to scorn all machinery."

Walt Whitman, quoted in John Stewart Collis, Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body

In my latest National Post column I ask why Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake is ducking out of the fight with Donald Trump he insists is necessary.

"As heretical as it may seem to institution-bound historians, the study of history has essentially been a self-help project."

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg in The Great Reckoning 

"The Law of Supply and Demand. As inexorable as the Law of Gravity, even governments cannot break it, although they often try."

William Trench in Only You Can Save Canada