In my latest Epoch Times column, a New Year’s look ahead, I said if we can’t get politicians to resolve to stop talking nonsense in 2026, we can at least determine that we ourselves won’t pretend they’re not… even if they’re on “our side”.
On the News Forum with Hal Roberts I discuss equalization, Western alienation and the feeble inertia of Canadian public policy.
“When Chesterton had been on the London literary scene for only a few years, both the general public and the literary critics started realizing his great versatility… ‘It has been suspected for some time,’ wrote an anonymous critic, ‘that his foible is omniscience.’ (Manchester Courier, Mar. 18, 1905).”
Dale Ahlquist “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
In my latest appearance on Juno News, I join “The Fighter“ host and Canadian Taxpayers Foundation Alberta Director Kris Sims to discuss where Mark Carney currently squirms on climate and Hollywood remaking Animal Farm as an anti-capitalist metaphor.
“Work while you work,/ Play while you play;/ One thing each time,/ That is the way. All that you do,/ Do with your might;/ Things done by halves/ Are not done right.”
Complete text of “Work while you work” from McGuffey’s Primer, in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“There are two kinds of ascetics in the world… The first ascetic surrenders things because he could enjoy them; he is the Catholic monk. The second ascetic surrenders things because he could not enjoy them; he is the Puritan. The first is in the tradition of the Pagan sacrifices; he sacrifices the best beast to his gods. The second slaughters only black beetles upon the altar. Briefly, the first offers to give up his goods, the second offers to give up his bads, to heaven.”
G.K. Chesterton in Independent Review January 1906, quoted in “Joy” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“Great Hide & Seek players are hard to find”
Emailed by a friend without attribution
“John, you deserve an exclusive vacation”
Subject line on email from Marriott Vacation Club June 11, 2024 [making no effort to establish that I in fact deserved such a thing]