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.

“[History’s] chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from which... we become acquainted with the regular springs of human action and behaviour.”

David Hume Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding quoted in Norman Davies The Isles

In my latest Loonie Politics column I question the urgency, given the COVID-19 pandemic, of Canada’s ongoing bid to buy a UN Security Council non-veto seat because otherwise Norway might get it.

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why after all its horrors. misdeeds and lies, most recently the Chinese government deliberately hiding the COVID-19 outbreak from the world while it spread, people including in our government still take a rosy view of communism.

“William James used to say that there was not much difference between one man and another but that the little difference there was was of great importance.”

Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (author's 1967 Preface)