In my latest National Post column I say we must get over our belief that we can live without trade-offs or anything bad ever happening, and make real-world choices about quarantines and everything else.
“It’s budget season in Canada — the time of year when economists emerge from their dens, shake the moss out of their hair, scratch a tree, note the length of their shadow and use it to predict that the economy will definitely grow this year unless conditions cause it to stall.”
Monte Solbert in Ottawa Sun February 24, 2014
In my latest National Post column I say government should focus on public health and forget central planning.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I warn that, as a rising tide lifts many boats, one that suddenly recedes leaves a lot of things broken and stranded, and that unsound government programs will be conspicuous among them.
“There is a widespread desire everywhere to have human rights declared, protected and advanced.”
Michael Novak in First Things November 2002
In my latest Epoch Times column I say one lesson of COVID-19 is that it was a serious if predictable mistake to think appeasing the Communist Party of China would tame it.