In my latest Epoch Times column I say the decision to cut another billion dollars out of the Canadian military, and deny you’re doing it, is more proof that we are governed by profoundly unserious people.
“As always, Chesterton says it best: ‘How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it … You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky in a street full of splendid strangers.’”
John Walker in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“From fat your iniquity proceeds.”
The soul in Piers Plowman Passus XV l. 318
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if a typical MP could not pass a pop quiz on World War II or almost any subject, and voters and journalists don’t notice, it’s way past time we stopped letting the state run our education system.
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1954), quoted in Maclean’s September 9, 1996
“‘His imperfections flowed from the contagion of the times: his virtues were his own.’“
Edward Gibbon on Belisarius, cited in George F. Kennan American Diplomacy 1900-1950
“it will be well to remember that when a rigid officialism breaks in upon the voluntary compromises of the home, that officialism itself will be only rigid in its action and will be exceedingly limp in its thought.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted without further source in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)
In my latest Epoch Times column I heckle an entire Parliament full of people who didn’t know who fought who in World War II, that guests for a high-security speaker should be vetted or just about anything else.