In my latest Epoch Times column I say the flap over waxy butter from palm-oil-fed cows should focus on how supply management reliably creates bad products at high prices.
“Good soldiers, who both love and trust their general, frequently march with more gaiety and alacrity to the forlorn station, from which they never expect to return, than they would to one where there was neither difficulty nor danger. In marching to the latter, they could feel no other sentiment than that of the dullness of ordinary duty: in marching to the former, they feel that they are making the noblest exertion which it is possible for them to make.”
Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, arguing that people shouldn’t have trouble facing disaster knowing God is good
“If one’s view of human nature is very constrained, then the alternative to loyalty is not impartiality but pure selfishness.”
Thomas Sowell A Conflict of Visions
In my latest National Post column I accuse Justin Trudeau and his cronies of willful blindness on the threat the People’s Republic of China poses to Canadians.
“Every man desires to obtain additional wealth with as little sacrifice as possible.”
N.W. Senior in 1836 “laying down the first of the four principles of Political Economy” quoted in “What is Left of Adam Smith?” in Stephen Leacock On the Front Line of Life
“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”
Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs are testing their employees while the state is not testing you teaches a lesson about howmarkets work and governments don’t.
In my latest National Post column I warn that the robots are coming faster than you think and CGI and AI spell big trouble.