In my latest Mercatornet column I warn that the divisions over the protest convoy reflect a collapse of trust in Canadian society that will not be healed by both sides acting untrustworthy.

“There’s no elevator to the major leagues. You have to take the stairs.”

The supervisor of Canadian scouting for Major League Baseball, Tom Valcke, quoted in Maclean’s November 11, 1992

“We cannot begin by forming independently a theory of how God is knowable and then seek to test it out or indeed to actualize it and fill it with material content. How God can be known must be determined from first to last by the way in which He actually is known.”

Thomas Torrance, quoted in John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist

“I wish I were as cocksure about anything as Tom Macaulay is about everything.”

“Melbourne’s celebrated comment on Macaulay” according to a letter from John O. Voll in National Review December 2, 1991

“Well, things are back to abnormal.”

Quoting myself from July 6, 2002 (and they still seem to be).

“The only proposals in the senate that I have seen fit to mention are particularly praiseworthy or particularly scandalous ones. It seems to me a historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil words and deeds with the fear of posterity’s denunciation.”

Publius Cornelius Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome

In my latest National Post column I ask how I, of all people, could be a lonely voice of balanced reason on the truckers’ protests.

“The moment a thing has ceased to be a paradox it is in immediate peril of becoming a platitude. It is in peril of becoming one of those things that are accepted ‘in principle’ by all unprincipled men.”

G.K. Chesterton quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #11 (September-October 2021)