“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the danger a new pandemic poses to our crumbling health care system shows that getting incentives wrong isn’t some dry economic concept, it’s a clear and present danger to our health as well as our finances.

In my latest National Post column I say the silliest criticism of the U.S. taking out terrorist Qasim Soleimani, among quite a few dumb ones, is that now they’ve made the Iranian government angry so now we’re in trouble.

In the National Post I ask how even bureaucrats could possibly write a doggerel health warning that, whatever one thinks of its content, is miserably inept as doggerel and not notice that it didn’t rhyme, scan, inspire or amuse except, in the last case, accidentally.

“Above all, we must insist, as against the utopian concepts, that a tolerable order of things is one of a proper balance between the social and the individual: that a human being is neither an ant nor a shark.”

Introduction in Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century

In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask how somebody as smart as Bill Morneau can be so idiotic about the nation’s finances.