In my latest Loonie Politics column I praise Mikhail Gorbachev for the fundamental decency that led him to permit the peaceful dissolution of Soviet Communism. But I insist that he was no statesman, and no thinker, and that credit for ending the Cold War properly belongs with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and their supporters.
In my latest National Post column I say that whether American President Joe Biden broke the taboo on saying explicitly that the U.S. would defend Taiwan as a calculated geopolitical measure, or because he’s losing it, it makes the world a safer place that he blurted it out.
“Few believe that France and Germany could go to war again or that Communism could again aspire to be a world system.”
British journalist John Lloyd writing in Globe & Mail March 15, 2000 (a piece Xi Jinping apparently missed)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say a small news item about overfishing squid actually speaks volumes about what’s wrong with the world today and with how we think about it, especially government.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask whether a government invoking emergency powers over protest crowdfunding has any interest in getting after literally hundreds of billions in dirty money being laundered in plain sight in Canada.
In my latest National Post column I say the great, and terrible, thing about capitalism is that what you find in stores is what we vote for with our dollars.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask what Canada, Germany or anyone except perhaps the U.S. can actually do if Russia invades Ukraine, since they have armed forces and we don’t.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the failure of the latest giant trendy COP 26 climate conference evidence of what happens when people who don’t grasp the existence of practical difficulties run into them anyway.