In my latest National Post column I say it’s absurd and ghastly for the major parties each to rail at the other for wanting to tax without spending, as if there were no connection between high program spending and high taxes.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the right answer to Canada’s incompetent governance is a simple “no”.
“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]
In my latest National Post column I say Remembrance Day is not a pacifist occasion, even on the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. (On which, and on the meaning and impact of World War I generally, see again The Great War Remembered on YouTube or in my online store.)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae In Flanders Fields
In my latest Mercatornet piece I say Trump remains popular with many Americans because despite everything he has gotten some important policies very right.
In a speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June (sorry, I’m a bit behind in my video editing) I argue that the calamities of the 20th century derived, fundamentally, from a rejection of the notion of truth.