“The decades ahead will almost certainly be unstable and unpredictable ones…”

The Editors teasing to “findings… from a diverse group of analysts at the RAND Corporation” that take up much of The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2003 issue

“People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat.”

“adage, quoted in the New York Times” in “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail September 22, 2008

In my latest National Post “Platformed” newsletter I say it’s absurd, especially now, for Canadian pundits to be fussing over the possible tactical positioning of Jean Charest for a possible Tory leadership run instead of asking him what he actually thinks about the issues and his underlying philosophy, for instance about national defence.

In my latest National Post column, while acknowledging the world-historic greatness of Justin Trudeau now that he has emergency powers, I ask whether our governments’ manifest incapacity to do even simple things including fixing health care derives from having long ago substituted make-believe for serious thought.

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask whether a government invoking emergency powers over protest crowdfunding has any interest in getting after literally hundreds of billions in dirty money being laundered in plain sight in Canada.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real danger facing Canada isn’t tyranny but anarchy, with governments full of meddlesome ambition so lost in make-believe they freeze facing real-world problems.

In my latest Mercatornet column I warn that the divisions over the protest convoy reflect a collapse of trust in Canadian society that will not be healed by both sides acting untrustworthy.

In my latest National Post column I ask how I, of all people, could be a lonely voice of balanced reason on the truckers’ protests.