“James J. Hill’s phrase ‘the cost of high living’...”
Robert H. Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement.
“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”
Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics
In my latest Epoch Times column I say one lesson of COVID-19 is that it was a serious if predictable mistake to think appeasing the Communist Party of China would tame it.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why after all its horrors. misdeeds and lies, most recently the Chinese government deliberately hiding the COVID-19 outbreak from the world while it spread, people including in our government still take a rosy view of communism.
“William James used to say that there was not much difference between one man and another but that the little difference there was was of great importance.”
Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (author's 1967 Preface)
In my latest National Post column I say Justin Trudeau’s reflexive effort to bypass parliamentary self-government in a crisis was dangerous as well as foolish.
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.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that, serious as Wuhan virus is, it’s teaching us a lot about preparing for something even worse.