In my latest National Post column, I urge the upper class to admit to the world that they marry for good reasons.
My latest IRPP blog post on how problems in public policy can't get solved if the people in charge don't know there's a problem.
My latest National Post column asks what professors would think of the university system if they were looking at it from outside.
Read my latest column in the National Post rejecting the concept of "net neutrality".
This Friday I'll be in Calgary at the Essentials of Freedom conference organized by my friend Danny Hozack. If you're in the area please join Danny, me, Brian Lilley, Mark Milke and others to talk about what's going wrong and how to get it right again. Including (but you saw this coming) a discussion of Magna Carta and our upcoming documentary funded through Kickstarter.
In my latest Rebel Media piece I ask why government is teaching kids about sex at all. Instead of debating what's in the state school curriculum, we should be debating state schools. John Stuart Mill said in On Liberty that the government should require parents to educate children, and make sure they could afford to, but should not deliver it because
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
How right he was.
John Ivison in the National Post laments how Parliament is ceasing to control executive branch spending as a departure from the principle of individual freedom from arbitrary government.
See my latest thoughts on the Greek financial crisis on the IRPP's Policy Options blog here.