“Now that God is dead, however, or at least comatose”

Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic Monthly March 2004

“A frightening scene stands out in my memory: three husky Russian policemen, with faces resembling bare buttocks, invading our apartment in search of subversive books.”

Nicolas Slonimsky Perfect Pitch

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it’s not surprising for an unprincipled Red Tory to join in the orgy of vote-buying at the expense of the last vestige of conservatism. But it won’t end well for the nation.

“Perhaps the world is divided into those who laugh first and think afterwards, and those who think first and laugh afterwards.”

G.K. Chesterton in American Review September 1935, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)

“To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child.”

Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education

In my latest National Post column I argue that the solution to toxic anger in politics, far easier said than done, is neither to cause nor succumb to it.

“Mr. [Mark] Kingwell’s jaundiced view is ultimately based on that non-existent wraith, ‘economic man,’ a lobotomized Scrooge on a shopping spree.”

Peter Foster in National Post February 12, 1999

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

“George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 8, 2012