September 27, 2025

One of the uses of history is to free us from a falsely imagined past.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.