In my latest Epoch Times column I ask, à propos of the federal Liberals suddenly proclaimed intention to “turbocharge” housing construction after nine years of muffing the file, what leads our politicians or anyone else to have so much faith in their capacity, and the state’s capacity, to fix any and every problem life presents.
In my latest National Post column, I say Western leaders’ calls for Israel not to retaliate for Iran’s blatant act of war amounts to “Free hits on Jews” and is disgusting, cowardly and a recipe for disaster.
“H.G. Wells’ description of the town of Bromstead – ‘a dull, useless boiling up of human activities, an immense clustering of futilities.’”
William H. Whyte The Organization Man
“in Nisga’a culture, we believe that this pole is alive with the spirit of our ancestors.”
An aboriginal chief regarding a totem pole repatriated from a Scottish museum, quoted in National Post August 29, 2023
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say Justin Trudeau is half-right that his job is not to be popular.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I complain that voters throughout Canada and the Western world are not just letting politicians give up on fiscal prudence, they’re indifferent to our plunge toward insolvency.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say chronic overuse of pharmaceuticals, including on kids, proves that our modern materialistic approach to human fulfilment has failed not that it has succeeded.
“It bears repeating over and over that, when we talk about freedom, we are not talking about the right to do whatever we want, when we want, where we want, how we want, with whomever we want. And that's not the freedom that the original author of our national anthem, writing in 1880, would have had in mind either. Unfortunately, this is what many in our culture understand freedom to mean. But the ‘I get to do whatever I want’ type of freedom is no freedom at all, but rather slavery to our passions. (John 8:34-36 Rom. 6, 1 Peter 2:16 2 Peter 2:19). It describes radical personal autonomy, which isn't at all what the Bible describes. Look at the 10 commandments, for example. Does God say, ‘I am the LORD your God, who set you free from slavery. Now live as you please! Let every man do as he sees fit!’ Certainly not. If God said that, the nation of Israel would descend into chaos. But neither does God say, ‘I am the LORD your God, who set you free from slavery. Now, live under the crushing weight and drudgery of my law.’ No, God has set us free, and then He gives us the code by which freed people can live together and flourish!”
André Schutten and Michael Wagner, A Christian Citizenship Guide 2nd edition