Born in Newfoundland in 1947, his brilliance took him to Oxford in 1968 where he studied law for a year before returning to Canada to continue his education in English literature. Inasmuch as my familiarity with him is based almost exclusively on his articles in the National Post which he joined in 2010, I find …
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This is Progress?
Approximately 2500 years ago, Socrates declared himself to be neither an Athenian nor a Greek, but a Citizen of the World. He was in essence validating the universal human qualities that bind us all together, repudiating the idea that the specifics of one’s existential condition in any way exonerate one of the obligation to pursue …
Hope for the Future?
Emily Wilson, whose online site is entitled “Emily Saves America,” was a devout liberal just a few years ago given to examining the views of people like Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and others whom she assumed she would despise. To her amazement, however, she discovered they were all intelligent, courageous beings who inspired …
A Despicable Double Standard!
On Jan. 3 of 2022, Associated Press published an article by Michael Biesecker entitled: “Ashli Babbitt a martyr? Her past tells a more complex story.” Babbitt was shot to death by a cop as she sought to climb through a broken window of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Biesecker goes on at some …
Hamas is the Problem, You Fools!
Both Canada and the States are presently rife with demonstrations against Israel for the suffering it has inflicted upon Palestinian civilians in its ongoing war with Hamas. Of course one laments the deaths of the innocent in such conflicts! But are the Jews the villains in this scenario or simply responding in the only way …
The Cancer of Entitlement
On April 4, The Blaze published a piece by Candace Hathaway concerning the “woke” inclination of the contemporary Left to accept the legitimacy of the Gender Transition of any individual simply because those so inclined are by definition members of a persecuted minority. It is a recipe for “social justice” that is literally idiotic. On …
Sheer Hatred!
Last weekend The N.Y. Times published an opinion piece by Maureen Dowd entitled “Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust.” The article is rife with references to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” who, as he became king by killing his predecessor, is used as a symbol of Trump’s criminal lust for power evident in the Jan. 6 “insurrection” through which he …
An Objective View of Trump
On Mar. 16, Canada’s National Post published an opinion piece by Conrad Black indicting a recent editorial in The Globe and Mail as just so much political bias further energized by personal loathing. The target of the Globe article, of course, was Donald Trump. After clarifying his past relationships with both the owners of the …
A N.Y. Times Article fraught with Irony
In its International section on the weekend of Mar. 2, The New York Times published a wonderful piece by Dutch writer Ian Buruma on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Born a Sephardic Jew in Amsterdam in 1632, Spinoza’s ideas were central to the evolution of what has come to be known as the European Enlightenment. …
The Pathetic Joke that is “The View”
Last week, the wonderful Megyn Kelly welcomed the three hosts of The Fifth Column podcast to her show. The adjective most frequently used to describe the trio is “libertarian.” Perhaps the most interesting of the three is Kmele Foster who, as a Black man, utterly refuses to bow before the Identity Politics endorsed by the …