“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.

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

“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”

Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics

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.

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.