"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." "Stein's Law", named for economist Herb Stein (cited by Robert J. Samuelson in National Post January 1 1999)

In my latest National Post column I express dismay that yet another expansion of a social program, in this case EI, cost more than expected because paying people to do something caused more of them to do it. Of all things.

In my latest National Post column I say that closing ranks to defeat Marine Le Pen while ignoring the sources of the discontent she taps into would be to forget the lessons of Donald Trump if, indeed, people ever learned any.

Some people use "statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion

In my latest National Post column I ridicule the Ontario government's plan to meddle in the housing market.

If you know somebody at a Canadian university who's interested in free markets and individual liberty, let them know about the Dobson Bursary available through the Institute for Liberal Studies. The application deadline is June 30, 2017.

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail July 11 2012

In my latest National Post column I argue that property rights and human rights are synonymous, in practice and at the deepest level.