“men who are called practical; and the much more practical pertinacity of the man who is called theoretical.”

G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox”

In my latest National Post column I challenge those prone to declaring policy debates “settled” to tell us on which subjects, if any, an intelligent, decent person might have a different view from theirs.

“‘What is it that I don’t know?’ Sir Humphrey feigned ignorance. ‘Minister,’ he said, ‘I don’t know what you don’t know. It could be almost anything.’”

A Jim Hacker diary entry in Yes Minister Vol. I