In my latest Epoch Times column I defend the desire of normal people to protect pleasant neighbourhoods from social engineering cement.
In my latest National Post column I take readers on a guided tour of the dismal wasteland that is Xi Jinping Thought.
“People wishing to get organized at home should follow advice such as the One-Minute Rule, contends The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: That which takes a minute to do (or less) should be done. For instance, hang up your coat, put shoes in the proper place, use the hamper and hang up the bath towels.”
“Social Studies” in Globe &Mail January 27, 2004
In my latest Epoch Times column I challenge BoC governor “Tiff” Macklem to tell us what he thinks causes inflation, the thing it’s his #onejob to prevent and which is currently very unprevented in Canada.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it would actually be desirable for the CBC to drop its threadbare pretense at neutrality, provided it also gives up its subsidy and sees whether there’s a significant audience that actually wants full-bore wokeness.
“Of other Nobel Prize winners who make many grandiloquent statements on things they know nothing about, Stigler said that they ‘issue stern ultimata to the public on almost a monthly basis, and sometimes on no other basis.’”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
“There is no law of geography which dictates that it would be impossible for all the inhabitable areas of the earth to lie in latitudes, and be subject to physical conditions, of the type that produced the Asian empires…. Indeed, how can any ‘rigorous’ theory account for Britain’s being an island, a fact that has certainly contributed most importantly to the world’s social and political development. Its insulation was the merest accident on any rational time scale, dating from some ten thousand years ago, a geological instant.”
Robert Conquest in Reflections on a Ravaged Century, critiquing the narrowness of Marx’s development theory.
“Paul Samuelson, winner of the second Nobel Prize in Economics, is fond of saying that economists have successfully forecast seven of the last four recessions.”
William Watson in Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life