In my latest National Post column I say that, while Justin Trudeau didn't cause the disaster that is Donald Trump, our Prime Minster needs to find more adult and less conceited ways of limiting the damage.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I worry that the Auditor General's description of government failures as "incomprehensible" suggests that our political class has far too little grasp of how the state in which they place so much faith actually works... or doesn't.

In my latest National Post column I thank Kathleen Wynne for breaking with political tradition and, on her way out, saying something during an election that everybody already knew was true anyway.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/679-war-is-an-ugly-thing-but-not-the-ugliest-of)