In my latest Mercatornet column I say the United States Supreme Court is contributing to the corrosive distrust spreading in their society, and ours as well.
“Laugh while you can still breathe.”
Another of mine, from March 2, 1989.
“All vulgar errors arise from education. The uneducated are generally right: the badly educated are always wrong.”
G.K. Chesterton in New Witness August 20, 1914, quoted in standalone boxed quotations headed “Education” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)
In my latest Epoch Times column I take aim at Orwellian social justice as is unjust, antisocial and un-Canadian.
“Every man who has knocked about the world knows that the real peculiarity of Catholicism is that it may turn up anywhere in the most incongruous social types. We are not surprised if a billiard-marker or a music-hall acrobat is a Catholic, though we might be fairly surprised if he were a Baptist; we are not surprised if a scavenger or a ratcatcher is a Catholic, though we might be if he were a Theosophist.”
G.K. Chesterton in English Life Jan. 1924, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.”
#3 in “Gilbert!’s Top 10 More Bad Puns” in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
“The chief error of these people is to be found in the very phrase to which they are most attached – ‘plain living and high thinking.’… They would be improved by high living and plain thinking. A little high living (I say, having a full sense of responsibility, a little high living) would teach them the force and meaning of the human festivities, of the banquet that has gone on from the beginning of the world.”
G.K. Chesterton Heretics
“The simple truth would still cause a considerable sensation. It is the one shock for which the world is still waiting.”
G.K. Chesterton in New Witness January 6, 1923, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2022)