In my latest National Post column I take aim at the political habit of constantly praising diversity in theory while consistently trying to squash it in practice, including in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say we should tackle economic and medical issues as though something else bad might hit us, even another pandemic, rather than returning to unfounded complacency.

“All plans of government, which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind, are plainly imaginary.”

David Hume, Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth quoted in Samuel Brittan Against the Flow

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.

“the fastest execution since someone said, ‘This Guy Fawkes bloke, do we let him off, or what?’”

Edmund Blackadder in Black Adder Goes Forth, quoted in blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-3-major-star-full-script

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported.”

Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations

In my latest National Post column I say government should focus on public health and forget central planning.