In my latest National Post column I say Justin Trudeau’s reflexive effort to bypass parliamentary self-government in a crisis was dangerous as well as foolish.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a crisis is no time to suspend our habit of questioning authority including in the political arena.

“all men naturally love freedom and hate servitude…”

Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul

In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say that, serious as Wuhan virus is, it’s teaching us a lot about preparing for something even worse.

“Even my own fears that Mr. Deeds would be too provincially American – too ‘apple pie’ – proved unfounded. ‘O-filling,’ ‘doodling,’ and ‘pixilated’ were as rib-tickling in Ulan Bator as they were in Allentown, Pa. Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

“let us keep in mind about these people that, whatever their language, culture, or religion, whatever peculiar thing they are wearing through their nose, whatever caliber item they have pointed at our head, they are people, too. They are just as dumb, stinky and ridiculous as we are.”

P.J. O’Rourke All the Trouble in the World