In my latest National Post column I ask again how governments can be surprised again to find that incentives matter again.

"To Keynes’s famous dictum - 'in the long run we are all dead' - the historian is committed by profession flatly to reply ‘Nonsense! the long run is with us, a powerful active force every day of our lives."

Walt Rostow The Process of Economic Growth

"Whether one wishes it or not, man is also a historical animal: the place he occupies in time is as important for him as that which he occupies in space…"

Régine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages

In my latest National Post column I say it's not reasonable to think the accelerating pace of technological and social change is remotely sustainable.

"The past is many things, but one thing it is, is irrevocable. A past to your liking is not an entitlement."

Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?
 

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the attack on Land of the Silver Birch shows the PC revolution devouring its children... and everything else.

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.