On the Richard Syrett show on Sauga 960 AM I discussed my Aristotle Foundation column in the Western Standard on the strange-looking decision to devote an entire issue of the official Canadian Military Journal to a denunciation of our crumbling armed forces as a bastion of patriarchal settler oppression.
“And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination – you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.... Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency – the devotion to efficiency.”
Marlow, in Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
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
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.
“There is nothing wrong with old ideas, so long as they are true. And there is nothing admirable about new ones, if they aren’t.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real scandal in our government falsely claiming to be helping the U.S. and Britain against Iranian-backed Islamist pirates isn’t that they’re lying, it’s that they’re deluded.