In my latest National Post column I try to make sense of the Canadian oil industry's apparent plan to win friends and influence people by agreeing that it's destroying the planet.

Another positive review of The Environment: A True Story, this one from the Personal Liberty Digest. Thanks guys, for reviewing, praising and sharing it.

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In my latest Mercatornet piece I argue that Australians, too, owe their firmly grounded self-government to the long and often violent struggle for liberty throughout the English-speaking world. (On which see also, of course, my documentaries on Magna Carta and the Right to Arms.)

"If you make an ass out of yourself, there’ll always be someone ready to ride you. Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory."

Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

"There’s no such thing as a bad day when there’s a doorknob on the inside of the door".

Paul Galanti, former Navy Commander and Vietnam War POW, quoted in National Post March 24, 2003

"To suppose that this universe came into existence, with you and me in it, in order that we might, in Shakespeare’s felicitous phrase, 'grind out our appetites', is not only to demean life, but to make it farcical as well."

Malcolm Muggeridge, "Address, 1970" in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

"They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the stair-case and was viscid under the foot like organic matter."

O. Henry in “The Furnished Room”