In my latest National Post column I ask how Canadians are meant to understand their system of government when party leaders like Elizabeth May clearly don't.
"First, incentives matter to all human behaviour.... Like it or not, individuals will undertake more of an activity if the costs of that activity are reduced; this holds as much for bureaucrats as it does for profit-maximizing owners of firms." Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal, Free Market Environmentalism
In my latest National Post column I argue that forbidding "cultural appropriation" would stifle dialogue and sympathy.
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." A.N. Whitehead
"As long as history is regarded as ‘philosophy teaching by examples’ drawn from real life, this tendency to write up the virtues of past ages will persist. So long also will classical scholars be tempted to seek to enhance the value of their subject by dwelling with enthusiasm upon the moral worth of the Romans." F.R. Cowell, Cicero and the Roman Republic
In my latest National Post column I say if the Senate can write silly patronizing children's books for adults, I can too. Please send me money.
In my latest National Post column I express dismay that yet another expansion of a social program, in this case EI, cost more than expected because paying people to do something caused more of them to do it. Of all things.
Some people use "statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion