In the Epoch Times I argue that Justin Trudeau’s Canada Agenda 2030 isn’t part of some vast shadowy Great Reset plot, just a set of trendy progressive notions whose sweeping cosmic ambitions will succumb to their own vagueness and his chronic managerial incompetence.
In my latest National Post column, I use Fred Litwin’s new book On the Trail of Delusion about Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories to warn of the danger even of the amazingly common garden variety notion that people who disagree with us about public policy must be hiding their real goals.
“We do not claim that every normal individual always knows his or her own best interests but that no one else is likely to know them better. That is what Aristotle meant when he wrote that the wearer of shoes knows better than the cobbler whether a shoe pinches.”
William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy
“Education, even democratic education, will not remove international conflict, because conflict is rooted in the morally ambiguous nature of man.”
Ernest W. Lefever, Ethics And United States Foreign Policy
In my latest National Post column I argue that the surge in opioid overdose deaths alone since March proves that in weighing the benefits of pandemic lockdowns, science and economics alike demand that we also count the very real human costs.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask everyone to keep calm and rely on evidence rather than partisan passion in determining whether there were any significant ballot box shenanigans in the United States. It is as absurd to call fraud impossible a priori if you won as to call it necessary a priori if you lost, and the winners have at least as big a stake as the losers in making sure the vote was clean.
My final appearance on the show so thanks to all who listened, to Anthony for being a great host, and to all those behind the scenes who made it happen.
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that a real-time parliamentary hearing into the government’s pandemic response is necessary on medical and constitutional grounds… and is actually better for the Liberals, even if some of it is embarrassing, than blundering ahead in darkness.