"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."

G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton 

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the attack on Land of the Silver Birch shows the PC revolution devouring its children... and everything else.

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."

MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.

"This… is what is meant today by being broadminded: living on prejudices and never looking at them."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 5, 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 p. 18.

In my latest National Post column, I say the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters dangerous, familiar territory when it starts telling the Catholic Church what it should think.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006