If you're in Ottawa on Tuesday Nov. 21, I'll be speaking at a "Tories on Tap" event on taxation that evening. It's organized by the Ottawa Centre Conservatives and you can register here though as always I'm not appearing in a partisan capacity.

For the record, I'm a Whig. But I'll speak to anyone looking for good ideas in public policy.

In my latest National Post column I argue that our Prime Minister's inability to recognize evil and malice in the world is baked into his cheerfully daffy worldview.

"We should always endeavour to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth."

G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle and the Wild Ducks, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani Chesterton University Student Handbook.

"History, alas, has a way of hanging on."

Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

"Discerning 'right' from 'wrong' in economics is a matter of distinguishing mutualistic from parasitic relationships."

Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism

In my latest National Post column I say the solution to mean-spirited echo chambers and fake news online is in the mirror.

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripides