The best way to avoid disappointment is to have low expectations — they can almost always be met.

MercatorNet's editor described the mainstream media, stunned by the Trump victory, as "spectacularly clueless":

Is the press trustworthy? Can we believe what reporters and journalists tell us? Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the New York Times, explains why Americans' trust in the news media has fallen, and why that matters.

An unforgettable scene outside a college book sale in Toronto the other day: an old man, an old Jewish scholar, whom I have known in passing, thirty years.

My impression, from the lofty height of political non-involvement, has been that everywhere is turning into Baghdad.

In the new version of the film, Mowgli makes a modern mistake: he fails to realize that being human requires participation in a human community.

It was typical of George to die on the same day as David Bowie.

Clear thinkers and champions of freedom are in short supply, all the more so with the death of George Jonas.

Following the butchery at the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo, we are in the middle of another blizzard of post-facto hash-tag bravery.

While there's been a lot of talk about the "Francis Effect," it's worth pondering, on the Holy Father's seventy-eighth birthday, the Francis Filtration.