“No school, no boarding school, no day-care centre, no government institution can replace or improve upon the family.”

Herman Bavinck, quoted in André Schutten and Michael Wagner, A Christian Citizenship Guide 2nd edition

In my latest Epoch Times column I condemn the ruinous frivolity of seeking to launch massive new social programs that will fail the same way the existing ones have when we’re already out of money.

“Canada’s bronze medal a moment to be savoured”

National Post September 12, 2023 [1st page of the Sports section].

In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.

“Our plans miscarry because we have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

Seneca, quoted by a writer whose name I did not record in National Review July 11, 1994

“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023) – the context was a long-ago crisis in the affairs of the famous jeweler Tiffany’s.

“When someone offers you a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents’ worth, what happens to the other penny?”

Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition October 2004, “Submitted by Fred Fragano”.

“The reason we have sexual harassment is that we do not believe in chastity. In the end, the only way to discourage unwanted advances is to condemn immoral ones. To discredit sexual harassment, one must discredit sexual sin.”

J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]