In my latest Loonie Politics column I lament the hypnotic post-modern incoherence of Trudeau’s simultaneous insistence that he knows borrowing is harmless and can’t do a fiscal update because the future is uncertain.
“Austrians [the “Austrian school” of economists], I believe, have remained realistic because they have never suffered from what has been called ‘physics envy.’”
Michael Prowse in National Review February 24, 1997
In my latest Epoch Times column I say there’s a lot more sense in certain calls to “Defund the police” than you might think or than some advocates exhibit.
“[They use] statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
“Andrew Lang, Scottish humourist” quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion
In my latest National Post column I say because tyrannies are both ruthless and clueless, the Chinese Communists have no idea how bad they look using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover to crush freedom in Hong Kong.
“perhaps an inelegant analysis of a central problem would be more valuable than a rigorous analysis of a peripheral issue.”
The “noted economic historian ” Robert Higgs quoted in Thomas Sowell Conquests and Cultures
“the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
“Eric Temple Bell, the mathematician” quoted in National Review June 7, 1993