"Just because I have a short attention span doesn’t mean I"

"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)

In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.

"Of course we are lone survivors, of course the past that is our lives is at the bottom of an abyss - if the abyss has any bottom; of course, too, there’s no use talking unless one particularly wants to. But... one can, strange to say, still want to - ... You see I still, in presence of life (or of what you deny to be such,) have reactions - as many as possible..."

Henry James in a letter to Henry Adams near end of both their lives, quoted in The New Republic October 16, 1989

In my latest National Post column I say the Democrats' response to Donald Trump's State of the Union casts unflattering light on their inability to defeat him politically.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I advise the Ontario Tories not to be too clever by half and too stupid for words in choosing a new leader or an electoral platform.

"But even regarding History as the butcher's block at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History
 

In my latest National Post column I say we must be able to show compassion for victims of sexual abuse and of false accusation, and that compassion for women does not exclude compassion for men or vice versa.