In my latest National Post column I say the amber alert mishap over Pickering nuclear station is one more warning we shouldn’t need of why government is smugly inept.
Here’s a video from the past. It’s a talk I gave at the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June 2019 so I’m tardy making it available. And it’s about the Middle Ages which were, far too many people think, necessarily awful because they were long ago and old is bad and new is good. In fact there are a great many modern horrors that would have appalled people in the Middle Ages and one of them is widespread ignorance about the period.
Sorry to take so long to get around to editing and posting it. Life got in the way.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the danger a new pandemic poses to our crumbling health care system shows that getting incentives wrong isn’t some dry economic concept, it’s a clear and present danger to our health as well as our finances.
In my latest National Post column I say the silliest criticism of the U.S. taking out terrorist Qasim Soleimani, among quite a few dumb ones, is that now they’ve made the Iranian government angry so now we’re in trouble.
“The sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in an editorial in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008).
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask how somebody as smart as Bill Morneau can be so idiotic about the nation’s finances.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the British election more evidence that globalism isn’t working for ordinary people not because of “neoliberalism” but because of a swollen state and chaotic society whose complex rules favour the cosmopolitan elite that designed them.