In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that the Canadian Forces face an enlistment crisis because they’re too woke already, not because they aren’t woke enough yet

“[T]he absorption of the man and the exclusion of other matters show not how dull the subject is, but how fascinating it is. Because a man refuses to come out of Eden, they assume that he is being detained in gaol.”

G.K. Chesterton on absorption in apparently trivial hobbies, in “A Defence of Bores,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

Confucius, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go

“The intolerant myth may come from the fact that ‘tolerance’ is a vague term that is largely undefined. It does tend to elicit an emotional response. Tolerance is a good thing and is meant to serve justice. So if someone disagrees with me on an essential matter of the faith, I have to be very tolerant of the person, accepting and open to them, but that does not mean I should accept their ideas in a kind of moral relativism.”

“Rev. Eric Nicolai, with the communications office of Opus Dei in Montreal” asked in an e-mail conversation about the organization’s sinister image, in Ottawa Citizen October 7, 2002

“Presumably an Appalachian pin-up would be a moonshine girl.”

One of mine from January 5, 2000 – I don’t know if certain newspapers still have “Sunshine girls” but they did then.

“There’s a French expression that translates as: ‘When I look at myself, I despair; when I look at others, I’m consoled.’”

Paul Wells in National Post December 30, 1999

“There is no law of geography which dictates that it would be impossible for all the inhabitable areas of the earth to lie in latitudes, and be subject to physical conditions, of the type that produced the Asian empires…. Indeed, how can any ‘rigorous’ theory account for Britain’s being an island, a fact that has certainly contributed most importantly to the world’s social and political development. Its insulation was the merest accident on any rational time scale, dating from some ten thousand years ago, a geological instant.”

Robert Conquest in Reflections on a Ravaged Century, critiquing the narrowness of Marx’s development theory.

“Paul Samuelson, winner of the second Nobel Prize in Economics, is fond of saying that economists have successfully forecast seven of the last four recessions.”

William Watson in Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life