“I can honestly say my respect for you has never been higher.”

Dogbert (to Dilbert, scornfully) in Dilbert in Ottawa Sun July 19, 1996

In my latest Loonie Politics column I critique the New York Times and similar outlets for saying Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t win the Israeli election, then that he wasn’t winning, and then that he only won because Israeli voters are horribly right wing, and instead tell their readers why Netanyahu, Trump and others appeal to so many people who don’t read the New York Times.

“The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are ‘Real’ while the spiritual elements are ‘subjective’; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.”

C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters.

In my latest National Post column I say we should have seen chaos coming in Libya when we moved to oust Gadhafi.

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

Goethe, quoted on the flyleaf of Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy.