“the general rule that when people are talking like fools they are thinking like fools.”
A note sent to myself October 23, 2020 on watching a certain Canadian cabinet minister in action
“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.”
Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom
In my latest Loonie Politics column I praise Biden’s willingness to stand up to Russia and China, but condemn his belief that it requires adopting much of their big-government philosophy.
In my latest National Post column I say the Liberals’ plan to censor social media is an unpalatable blend of arrogance and cluelessness.
“Teach me neither to cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.”
“The late George V had these framed words hanging on the wall of his library in Buckingham Palace” according to Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“We are not any of us very nice.”
W.H. Auden, quoted by Rod McDonald in Ottawa Citizen March 20, 2001
In my latest National Post column I say the key question about Canada’s federal budget isn’t political but intellectual: Is this massive spending and borrowing spree based on sound assumptions about how the world works or not?
On Alex Epstein’s “Power Hour” podcast we had an extended discussion of China’s geopolitical ambitions and how the Western obsession with “Net Zero” plays into the hands of a Politburo all too happy to keep using fossil fuels while we cripple ourselves by discarding them.