“The fact that… we still live well cannot ease the pain of feeling that we no longer live nobly.”
John Updike, quoted by ordained minister Kevin Little of Ottawa in an Op Ed in Ottawa Citizen June 13, 2002
In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s recent insouciant refusal even to attempt to give serious answers to Pierre Poilievre’s questions about mounting national debt.
“Too large a proportion of recent ‘mathematical’ economics are mere concoctions as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.”
John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money
In my latest Epoch Times column I diagnose a strange ailment that makes Canadian public figures unable to hear or say words like “Taiwan” or “China” or to see misdeeds by the Communist regime.
“I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment.”
Another double-edged letter of recommendation phrase found in multiple places online.
In my latest National Post column I take aim at the political habit of constantly praising diversity in theory while consistently trying to squash it in practice, including in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.