In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fact that Trudeau already had to shuffle his cabinet with an eye to the 2019 election reminds us how politicians, obsessed with partisan victory not politics, squander the time they have to make a difference in government.

In my latest National Post column I call the availability of a genuine Stalin statue on e-Bay a reminder of a strange double standard about evil on the left.

"If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."
St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:10

“While some knowledge can be a good thing, sometimes too much is dangerous.”

Ontario Premier Mike Harris on why he filled key cabinet posts with people with limited relevant experience, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

“I find it enormously interesting that this approach [that the law is what the sovereign commands] to finding a replacement for a transcendental source of values involves, in effect, a redirection of metaphorical energy: to find a human equivalent for God, there is a focus not on God’s goodness, but on his Power. It makes sense.”

Arthur Allen Leff, “Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law,” Duke Law Journal Vol. 1979 #6