“We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change.”

Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925

In my latest National Post column I say democracies for all their failings still beat tyranny hollow because we can ask people who want power what they’d do with it and why.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Trudeau’s downmarket trip to an upmarket doughnut shop in Winnipeg was PR gone badly wrong.

“theories [should] be examined for their implications for observable behaviour, and these specific implications compared with observable behaviour.”

George Stigler in 1950, quoted in Steven N.S. Cheung, The Myth of Social Cost: A critique of welfare economics and the implications for public policy (Hobart Paper 82 from the Institute for Economic Affairs, 1979)

In my latest National Post column I warn Canada’s Conservative party that, given Western alienation, any cunning plan to put their 2019 defeat behind them by picking an eastern Red Tory leader would be partisan folly dangerous to national unity.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say if the feds really listen to Western complaints about big bad government, it won’t just help national unity, it will help the East.