In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the only way for David Johnson to dispel serious doubts about his suitability on Chinese Communist election meddling is to issue an immediate, vigorous call for an immediate, vigorous inquiry.
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser September 4, 2022.
“‘The Woman King’ may not be 100% factual. But that doesn’t stop it from being a must-see./ Some have criticized it for not telling the full extent to which the Dahomey kingdom participated in the slave trade, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a powerful film.”
Headline and deck on NBC “Think” “Culture & Lifestyle” piece September 16, 2022 [www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/the-woman-king-may-not-be-100-percent-factual-but-its-a-must-see-rcna48103] and which I quote, obviously, not because I sympathize but because I think it’s a characteristically unashamed modern assertion that if it advances a favoured cause the fact that it’s not true is of no importance.
“Lord Salisbury’s observation that ‘no lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust in experts’”
Michael Mandelbaum in New York Times June 16, 1985 [and widely quoted online but not, in any examples I found, with further attribution as to when or where Salisbury said it].
In my latest Epoch Times column I revert to a proposal I first made 31 years ago in Fraser Forum to reform the budging process by getting back to basics, because the past three decades and particularly the last five years have underlined the dangerous feebleness of the standard approach.
“As Chesterton put it ‘Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good.’ Ivan [Karamazov] may seem as though he is tired of evil, but through his disdain for evil, he rejects not what is evil, but what is good.”
Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
“Live your life so folks won’t have to lie at your funeral”
A sign at “First Baptist Church American Baptist Association” [no other information visible] posted on Instagram by c_mccourt 221002
“Chesterton says in The Everlasting Man that murder and hatred of children are always associated with witchcraft, which comes from demons.”
Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)