In my latest National Post column I say the decision by Warren Buffett to pull his $4 billion stake in a Quebec LNG plant, plus Teck abandoning its Frontier mine, is a scary and overdue intrusion of reality into the increasingly make-believe world of Canadian public policy.
In my latest National Post column I ask what the point is of trying to build a Conservative Frankenstein’s Monster with blue brain, red heart and green hair, brought to life by a jolt from a polling machine, when conservatism is the reality-based philosophy that believes in coherent rules.
In my latest National Post column I caution people who wish Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would “do something” about the crises facing Canada, from blockades to COVID-19 to the collapse of the Teck Frontier mine, that in his mind emoting is action. What we really need is for him to do something else.
“Displacement of ends by means: The desire for a powerful government in order to pursue certain goals seems to have given way to desiring certain goals because they require a powerful government.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019.
“Strangely bad reasoning: ‘God hasn’t stopped human beings from committing evil. Therefore I withdraw my faith from God and place it in human beings instead.’”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019.
“To say that something is ‘natural’ means not that it is inevitable, but that the potential for it exists in the genotype. This in turn implies that it is merely prudent to bear in mind the potential of that ‘natural’ behavior and act accordingly. [Robert] Wright approvingly cites Francis Bacon, who announced, ‘Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.’”
Lionel Tiger reviewing Wright's Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny in National Review March 6, 2000