“How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." - Samuel Johnson...
“There are three infallible signs of the 'crank'...The first is that he has a theory about the Jews. The second is that he has a theory about money. And the third is that he has a theory about Shake...
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." - Clay Shirky Internet guru...
“The pathology of the Right is a hard heart; the pathology of the Left is a soft head" - Alan Borovoy Founder of, and General Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association 1969 - 2009...
“The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher...
“man's major foe is deep within him. But the enemy is no longer the same. Formerly it was ignorance. Today it is falsehood." Jean-Francois Revel The flight from truth....
“Any country that has tried to create a political solution to human problems has ended up with concentration camps and gulags" - Erin Pizzey...
The notion that female victimhood is more tragic than male victimhood has long been widely accepted. But those days are over Christinne Muschi, Reuters Something odd occurred in...
The French are enjoying a debate about their cultural identity. Obviously the word “enjoying” is a euphemism, since the focus of the debate, whether or not to ban the burqa — f...
One of my favourite novelists died Oct. 21 at the age of 87, and it took a while before the news reached me: The British-Israeli Lionel Davidson was relatively unknown on this side of the pond,...
Hear, O Israel! By David Solway Canadian Values Press (Mantua Books) 181 pages; $25 On September 10, 2001, Canadian David Solway was merely an acclaimed poet, educator, and literary cr...
In September 2008, after years of pre-planning by elites without public consultation, Quebec's Ministry of Education established a province-wide, compulsory pedagogical program called Ethiq...
There is one subject no writer in the world, even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project, and that is the death of his own child. A Cracking of the Heart by f...
I have two sisters, an older and a younger. We like to pretend we all make our life choices independently, but in fact, every little decision by one sister immediately prompts low-grade competitive...
There is one subject no writer in the world, not even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project: the death of his own child. Trouble is, when a child dies, a talented wr...
In the process of conveying a general idea or a cue to an emotional response, we often seek instinctive recourse in a linguistic device called antonomasia. We'll substitute an antonomastic ...
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people" - Thomas Mann ...
Barbara Kay responds to Matt Gurney Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:14 PM by Matt Gurney Barbara Kay, Euthanasia, Holy Post Matt Gurney’s November 24 column, “My ...
Last week, while sitting in my plastic surgeon's waiting room reading brochures extolling the magical properties of mysteriously named "fillers" that can reverse nature's cruel depradations to the f...
"A point of view is one's particular angle on the world, one's ways of viewing life that implies a well-considered position on a range of much larger questions than that of the reform of Social Securi...