“‘It was the nation,’ Churchill would afterwards demur, ‘that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.’…. In addition to giving the lion voice, he allowed he might have ‘sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.’”
Andrew Coyne in National Post September 19, 2001
In my latest Mercatornet column I say the U.S. midterms show once again the fatuity of seeking salvation through elections.
In my latest Epoch Times column I lament our Prime Minister’s inability to take Communist Chinese aggression seriously.
“There is also, just for the record, the cold comfort of knowing that all empires crumble when hubris and militarism alienate even their closest allies, distant wars entangle them in bloody conflicts, and popular leaders are exposed as self-serving frauds. I’m not saying this is especially good news, just that it is history’s lesson.”
Mark Kingwell in National Post March 19, 2003
On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen we discussed the nature, purpose and tools of remembrance.
In my latest Epoch Times column I recall and honour all including those who vanished in the long, unending fight for liberty and decency.
“It is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander. The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of making new roads, they are only making new ruts. Each of them is necessarily imprisoned in his own curious cosmos.”
G.K. Chesterton's Introduction to “Fancies and Fads” quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“It’s just that nothing seems to be much fun any more, and that’s horrible, for when you’ve said that, there’s nothing more to say.”
Betsy’s internal monologue in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit