In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock the “experts say” meme reporters use to make liberal opinions sound like scientific fact.
“Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that’s too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.”
Julian Barnes, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 21, 2002
In my latest National Post column I say the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics was a much better idea than I realized at the time, and we should do it again over Beijing in 2022 for much the same reasons.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the now-routine desperate improvisation to avoid fiscal ruin is not going to end well in Washington, or here in Canada.
“Thucydides... wanted to be ‘judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.’”
National Review March 6, 1995
In my latest Mercatornet column I say the mania for booster shots for vaccines that don’t work very well to stop a variant they may not work against at all is not science.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if there’s really a burgeoning mental health crisis over hair loss we’ve lost more from our heads than just the stuff above our scalps.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the reason public officials pivot ataxically from one certainty to another on SARS-CoV-2 (yes, that’s the virus) is that the public won’t accept that the government doesn’t have all the answers.