"no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse"

John Locke The Second Treatise of Government

Yesterday Danielle Smith interviewed me on her 770 CHQR radio show about the upcoming EEA conference in Calgary "Stemming the Tide of Red Ink" (March 2-3). We've got a great lineup of speakers from business, government and academia to talk about what's wrong federally, provincially and at the often-neglected municipal level and, crucially, about what we can do to fix it and we hope to see you there.

 “we do not ask whether interventionism is good or bad, moral or immoral, to be commended or condemned. We merely ask from the standpoint of those who want to put it into operation whether it serves or frustrates their intentions. In other words, does its application attain the ends sought?"

Ludwig von Mises Interventionism

In my latest National Post column I ridicule politicians' inability to fix the expensive, tangled, divisive mess known as Equalization.

In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.

"central to all economic analysis and instruction is the question of what determines the prices that are paid for goods and for services rendered."

John Kenneth Galbraith Economics in Perspective
Galbraith EIP

"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”

Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000