“the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
Fyodor Dostyevsky, quoted by Owen Lippert in Fraser Forum July 2000
On March 27 in a Christian Heritage Party webinar talk “Magna Lockdown: Canadian Liberty in a Medical Crisis” I argued that liberty isn’t a frivolous luxury or vague abstract ideal but a vital practical tool for creating and maintaining good government in crises as well as quiet times.
“If a rule of the form ‘he who takes the benefit must pay the cost’ is at stake, then solving the problem means spotting cheats. People do this well. The mind is not following abstract reason; it is enforcing a social contract.... Given this view of man – a natural trader, ever concerned with social debts and an uncertain future – it is little wonder that human minds are interested in detecting cheats, not pursuing pure logic, and in sampling frequencies rather than making risky one-off guesses.”
The Economist July 4, 1992 [an article on so-called "Wason tests" some of which people solve far better than others though they are logically equivalent]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the federal opposition parties should welcome an early election they won’t win, so the Trudeau Liberals will take the fall when their bad policies unravel.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I express amazement that people are expressing amazement that migrants are flooding toward the U.S. border after the Democrats won with a shrill anti-border-control message.
In my latest National Post column I say the Kielburgers may be right about Trudeau, but they have a long way to go on themselves.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say people calling on Justin Trudeau to solve the world’s problems are asking the wrong guy to do something nobody could and certainly not a disarmed Canada.
In the piece I just wrote for the National Post
I deplore that the woke now think Seuss should be toast.