In my latest Looniepolitics column I say Doug Ford's real problem isn't getting elected, it's coping with Ontario's out-of-control budget once he is.
“In Mr. Arcand’s film [Les Invasions Barbares], there are many suggestions that, like Rome, our culture has become decadent enough to be vulnerable to barbarians, however unworthy they may be. Most barbarians have the vigour of their appetites, if not the courage of their convictions. The barbarians who savaged America on 9/11 had the courage of their convictions, too."
William Thorsell in Globe & Mail August 30, 2004
The economic problem society faces "is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality."
"The Use of Knowledge in Society” in Friedrich Hayek Individualism and Economic Order
In my latest National Post column I say it's past time people stopped being shocked and stunned at populist upsets over smug insiders and started learning useful lessons about offering real choice.