"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)

"Your sheep’s clothing is slipping."

Eric Ambler, The Intercom Conspiracy, quoted as one of the "Top Ten Detective Fiction Wise Cracks" compiled by "Gramps" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #6 Issue 15 (April/May 1999)

In my latest National Post column I argue that Justin Trudeau is every bit as postmodern and post-truth as Donald Trump.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I defend Bob Plamondon's disquieting claim that it was Jean Chrétien.

"A useless life is an early death."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”

Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000

"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."

George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us