In my latest National Post column, I warn that reflexively scoffing at the rubes who don’t like sending their money to Quebec and think they can stop it would be disastrous.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the inflation currently breaking out because we printed too much money and produced too little wealth is a classic case of Hemingway’s line about going broke two ways.
In my latest Epoch Times column I use Neil Winokur’s book The Grumpy Accountant to lament that Canada’s tax system has been outrageously and needlessly complicated and harsh for many decades. Why do we let them do it to us?
In my latest National Post column I say nobody won the election and things won’t improve until the parties admit it and accept their share of the blame.
In my latest National Post column I say if you don’t like people blocking access to hospitals and shouting at health care workers in over-the-top frustration, and I don’t, you must not excuse illegal “direct action” when you do support the cause.
“But if ‘every man,’ as it has been written, ‘holds confined within him a mad-man,’ what must every Society do; - Society, which in its commonest state is called ‘the standing miracle of this world’! ‘Without such Earth-rind of Habit,’ continues our Author, ‘call it System of Habits, in a word, fixed ways of acting and believing, - Society would not exist at all.’”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
In my latest National Post column I call Erin O’Toole’s flipflop on gun control a test case of whether populism, as one way of making the electoral system more responsive to popular wishes, actually brings better or more honest policy.
“It is far more difficult to form an informed opinion about what is good for society as a whole than it is to determine where one’s self-interest lies.”
Judge Richard Posner, apparently in Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, quoted in James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds