“There are, in the last resort, no economic ends. The economic efforts of the individuals as well as the services which the market order renders to them, consist in an allocation of means for the competing ultimate purposes which are always non-economic. The task of all economic activity is to reconcile the competing ends by deciding for which of them the limited means are to be used.”

Friedrick Hayek, Law, legislation and Liberty, Vol. 2: The Mirage of Social Justice

In my latest National Post column I remind commentators that Notre Dame is a Paris “tourist attraction” and historical landmark because it’s a very beautiful church, and suggest that it’s beautiful because of the faith that built it.

In Convivium I warn that AI threatens our humanity almost as much if it does work as it threatens humanity if it runs amok.

“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”

Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002

In BOE Report I say if climate science really is settled, it want predictions ahead of time not rationalizations after the fact.

“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.”

G.K. Chesterton in the introduction to The Defendant

“It’s not what you are; it’s what you don’t become that hurts."

Oscar Levant, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail August 30, 2001