“What we learn from history is Churchill’s motto: ‘Never, never, never ever, give in.’”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s June 23, 1997
On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen I discussed why we remember on November 11 and what we should remember. (You can also watch it on Facebook here.)
In my latest Mercatornet column I find good news amid the snarling and sneering about the 2020 Presidential race: Trump’s increased vote among blacks and other minorities shows that the bitterly divisive horror story about America’s hopeless “systemic” racism is not true and is increasingly not believed even by the supposed victims.
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
Eli Wiesel Night
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (re Tom Buchanan who as a star of the Yale football team had been “a national figure in a way”)
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
G.K. Chesterton in Where All Roads Lead quoted in Gilbert! magazine January/February 2002
“They should take the fans who threw things on the ice and throw them right out of the building. Without opening the door.”
Announcer on Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff game April 18, 1996
“Percentage of Americans who say vacationing leaves them tired: 54”
Harper’s Index in Harper’s magazine October 2020