In my contribution to the National Post’s 20th anniversary section, I celebrate the freedom the paper has given its writers to express conservative opinions and respect the intelligence of our readers.
“we [should] form the term catallaxy to describe the object of the science we generally call economics, which then, following Whately, itself ought to be called catallactics… I am convinced that its more general adoption might really contribute to the clarity of our discussion.”
Friedrich Hayek The Fatal Conceit [Whately is Church of Ireland Archbishop Richard Whately, who evidently made the suggestion in 1838]
In my latest National Post column I say the first step toward an effective foreign policy is to abandon illusions about the effectiveness of “soft power” without something hard behind it.
“No real Englishman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist: he is much more likely to be sorry for his life.”
Roger Kimball’s Introduction to Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics