In a piece in C2C Journal that I forgot to post at the time, I argue that social licence sounds good, or did until we discovered you couldn’t get one. But in fact it’s just another way of saying “tyranny of the majority” which is bad in principle and worse in practice because it means mob rule by a fanatical minority
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 the National Post I condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s clueless call for global censorship in response to ugly behaviour online.
In my latest LooniePolitics column I say budgets have become so routinely vote-buying exercises that people cheer or boo depending if they get a good price for theirs not because they think it’s a good or bad idea to loot the Treasury for private gain.
“When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.”
John Carpay to the Economic Education Association of Alberta’s 6th Essentials of Freedom conference Feb. 9 2019