"Truth unasserted is a lie unopposed."

George Jonas in the National Post Dec. 11, 2010
 

“Apparently a past to your liking has become an entitlement.”

Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?

"the following are the possible ways for the listener to react to the communication: 1. he may accept the speaker and accept his statement; 2. he may accept the speaker but reject his statement; 3. he may reject the speaker but accept his statement; 4. he may reject the speaker and reject his statement. A person with what [Michigan State U.’s Milton] Rokeach calls a ‘closed mind’ is able to have only reactions (1) and (4)…

S.I. Hayakawa Language in Thought and Action

"an open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake."

Northrop Frye The Great Code

In the modern view "With the Enlightenment… World history was finally brought to its climax, its real new beginning, not in Jerusalem but in Western Europe and America, not in the first century but in the eighteenth. (We may perhaps be allowed a wry smile at the way in which post-Enlightenment thinkers to this day heap scorn upon the apparently ridiculous idea that world history reached its climax in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, while themselves holding a view we already know to be at least equally ridiculous.)"

N.T. Wright The Challenge of Jesus

In my latest National Post column I say it's past time people stopped being shocked and stunned at populist upsets over smug insiders and started learning useful lessons about offering real choice.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I commend the Ontario Tories for having a good leadership race, while asking whether they also have conservative policies.