In my latest Looniepolitics column I say Trudeau's increasingly bizarre and obvious missteps on trade are connected to his conceited geopolitical cluelessness.
In my latest National Post column I say we need to be far more alert about online security, and demand that our governments take it seriously too.
In my latest National Post column I say the proliferation of political "fake news" is party due to a proliferation of fake news everywhere.
In my latest National Post column I argue that our Prime Minister's inability to recognize evil and malice in the world is baked into his cheerfully daffy worldview.
In my latest National Post column I say the solution to mean-spirited echo chambers and fake news online is in the mirror.
My latest Looniepolitics column says the surprising defeat of Montreal mayor Denis Coderre should have us paying more attention to Canada's cities.
"you cannot build prescriptions on mere knowledge of positive facts, however systematized and comprehensive. You need a goal as well... it is all very well to know how the world works... But unless you have some test whereby you can distinguish good from bad, desirable consequences from undesirable, you are without an essential constituent of a theory of policy. You are like the captain of a ship equipped with charts and compasses and all the means of propulsion and steering, but without an assigned destination. A theory of economic policy, in the sense of a body of precepts for action, must take its ultimate criterion from outside economics."
Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy pp. 176-77.