“Generally speaking, what I complain of in the historical philosophy of Mr. Wells is that it is always jam to-morrow and never jam to-day.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted in “Chesterton University” “An Introduction to the Writings of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist” “G.K.’s Weekly, Volume 8 ■ September, 1928 – March, 1929” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the mercifully now reversed decision by Moncton city council to ditch their traditional Hanukkah acknowledgement (and a nativity scene) reflects a dangerously mistaken understanding of the place of religion in a free society.
“Tradition is only experience surviving death.”
G.K. Chesterton “The Leisure State” reprinted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
In my latest National Post column I say the tendency of Western feminists to side with Hamas, to the point of denying systematic rape during the Oct. 7 attack, reveals starkly that something is extremely wrong with an ideology that claims to be motivated by love and compassion.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say we’re in a heap of trouble now that Justin Trudeau has promised that his fall fiscal update will give us more of the fiscal restraint he thinks he’s delivered all along.
“I began listening more carefully to what my father had to say after the Churchill speech, for my father was clear in his own mind about where his loyalties lay. Having known persecution in Poland [he was Jewish], having served with his brothers in the British Army during the First World War, and having been a fierce patriot in his land of adoption, my father was an outspoken advocate of British freedom. ‘This is the one place where people are still free,’ he would tell me. ‘If you have to choose between giving in and fighting, fight; just remember that. Fight with everything you’ve got.’”
Jack Maurice Nissen Winning the Radar War
In my latest National Post column I describe the weird combination of tedium and fury induced by listening to members of the UN special committee for blaming Israel for all problems in the Mideast droning on.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau’s partisan suspension of the carbon tax on home heating oil doesn’t prove his climate crusade is secretly a hoax, it proves he’s openly a very silly man.