In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.
In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.
“As Dr. F.G. Oosterhoff says, ‘Ideas have a history.’ More than that, ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims.”
André Schutten and Michael Wagner, A Christian Citizenship Guide 2nd edition
“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