“Hot weather is a classic example of being able to manufacture a problem that, in a very real sense, one may choose not to make a problem simply by ignoring it.”
Charles Murray in National Review March 30, 1992
In my latest National Post column I say the decision by Warren Buffett to pull his $4 billion stake in a Quebec LNG plant, plus Teck abandoning its Frontier mine, is a scary and overdue intrusion of reality into the increasingly make-believe world of Canadian public policy.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fate of Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries proves yet again that the widespread fear of money in politics is just paranoia.
“economists are not trying to explain human behavior but to predict what changes will occur, at the margin, in human behavior if the costs and benefits of alternative courses of action change.”
James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein Crime and Human Nature
In my latest National Post column I ask what the point is of trying to build a Conservative Frankenstein’s Monster with blue brain, red heart and green hair, brought to life by a jolt from a polling machine, when conservatism is the reality-based philosophy that believes in coherent rules.
In my latest National Post column I caution people who wish Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would “do something” about the crises facing Canada, from blockades to COVID-19 to the collapse of the Teck Frontier mine, that in his mind emoting is action. What we really need is for him to do something else.