“Water is bewitched, so that it always goes downhill. Birds are bewitched, so that they fly. The sun is bewitched so that it shines.”
G.K. Chesterton, “A Fairy Tale,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton
With Alex Pierson on “On Point” I discuss the brittleness behind the brutality in China’s crackdown on Hong Kong protestors.
“The influence which writers of history thus exercise on public opinion is probably more immediate and extensive than that of political theorists who launch new ideas.”
Friedrich Hayek, quoted in appendix to R.M. Hartwell, “The Unfinished Agenda: Some Reflections on Completing the History of the Mont Pelerin Society”, September 1992
In my latest National Post column I say our government’s mealy-mouthed equivocation on the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong makes a mockery of the notion that Canada is “back”.
“Being for or against a natural phenomenon is a waste of time and mental energy.”
Michael Rothschild Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism (which he considers a natural phenomenon)