“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure: It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
Oscar Wilde quoted in Filip Palda The History of Tobacco Regulation: Forward to the Past
In my latest National Post column I ask what to do if you think Donald Trump has to go but Joe Biden’s not well enough to serve a term as President.
In my latest Epoch Times column I present the historical apology no Canadian prime minister should ever have to make for a predecessor’s failure to stand up for freedom for the people of Hong Kong.
“the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
“Eric Temple Bell, the mathematician” quoted in National Review June 7, 1993
In my latest National Post column I say we seem to have lost sight of what we’re trying to do on the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially ominous consequences.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s recent insouciant refusal even to attempt to give serious answers to Pierre Poilievre’s questions about mounting national debt.