In my latest National Post column I say the great, and terrible, thing about capitalism is that what you find in stores is what we vote for with our dollars.

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask what Canada, Germany or anyone except perhaps the U.S. can actually do if Russia invades Ukraine, since they have armed forces and we don’t.

“Experience teaches us that nothing stands so much in the way of developing great philosophers as the custom of supporting mediocre ones in state universities…. No state would ever dare to patronize such men as Plato and Schopenhauer… The state is always afraid of them.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as Educator” quoted in Will Durant The Story of Philosophy

“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.”

Harold B. Walker, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8, 2009

“The reply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, when complaining that his sword was too short, ‘Add a step to it,’ is applicable to everything in life.”

Samuel Smiles Self-Help

“We believe that the sun is in the sky at midday in summer not because we can clearly see the sun (in fact, we cannot) but because we can see everything else.”

C.S. Lewis Miracles (having conceded the enormous difficulty of evaluating directly whether the Incarnation happened or not).

“He wore… clothes that looked like what starts fires in old warehouses.”

Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash

In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock the “experts say” meme reporters use to make liberal opinions sound like scientific fact.