If you're in Ottawa on Tuesday Nov. 21, I'll be speaking at a "Tories on Tap" event on taxation that evening. It's organized by the Ottawa Centre Conservatives and you can register here though as always I'm not appearing in a partisan capacity.
For the record, I'm a Whig. But I'll speak to anyone looking for good ideas in public policy.
In my latest National Post column I argue that our Prime Minister's inability to recognize evil and malice in the world is baked into his cheerfully daffy worldview.
"History, alas, has a way of hanging on."
Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
In my latest National Post column I say the solution to mean-spirited echo chambers and fake news online is in the mirror.
In my latest National Post column I say the mass shooting at a Texas church does not validate arguments for gun control.
My latest Looniepolitics column says the surprising defeat of Montreal mayor Denis Coderre should have us paying more attention to Canada's cities.
"you cannot build prescriptions on mere knowledge of positive facts, however systematized and comprehensive. You need a goal as well... it is all very well to know how the world works... But unless you have some test whereby you can distinguish good from bad, desirable consequences from undesirable, you are without an essential constituent of a theory of policy. You are like the captain of a ship equipped with charts and compasses and all the means of propulsion and steering, but without an assigned destination. A theory of economic policy, in the sense of a body of precepts for action, must take its ultimate criterion from outside economics."
Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy pp. 176-77.
In my latest National Post column I argue against making the tax code even more complicated and unfair by extending charitable status in pursuit of social engineering.