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.

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported.”

Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations

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

In my latest National Post column I say we need to weigh the real dangers from the pandemic against the real and rapidly growing dangers from the lockdown.

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.

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.