“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.”

Henry David Thoreau, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

In my latest National Post column I say that, whatever else one thinks of the social media platforms banning Trump, it shows conclusively that they are publishers not platforms, and should be treated accordingly under libel and antitrust law.

In my latest National Post column I say the puzzling inability even of many high-tech firms to provide a PDF version of the paper manual they put in the box suggests we’re struggling with the green digital economy of the 21st century.

“‘If a man will not work he shall not eat,’ wrote St. Paul to the Thessalonians.”

Margaret Thatcher to Church of Scotland, quoted in James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.

“Attempts must be made to modify the institutions (legal, political, social, economic) with the objective of matching these more closely with the empirical realities of man’s moral limitations.”

James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?

“Armen Alchain once made a very important comment. He said, ‘You know, there is one thing you can trust everybody to do. You can trust everybody to put his interest above yours.’”

Milton Friedman “Economic Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom.” (Inaugural address of The Smith Center November 1 1991”

“We must take human nature as we find it. Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”

George Washington to John Jay August 8, 1786, in W.B. Allen Washington, George. A Collection.