“Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:3 (KJV)
Included below this fine piece by Terence Corcoran in the Dec. 24 National Post, you’ll find brief recommendations for “Ten essential books on capitalism” including two by me. Blurbs, alas, not books. But it is an honour to recommend both Hazlitt and Friedman.
For the National Post’s “NP Platformed” I wrote about what politicians might contemplate in the light of the Star over Bethlehem… as might we all.
My talk to the Dec. 11 Canadian Association for Equality “Momentum” conference, on the subject of politics being downstream from culture, is now available here (as is the entire conference). And if you’re thinking I haven’t learned much about Zoom setup in the last two years, well, the results speak for themselves… unfortunately.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask what people see in the actual operations of government that inspires them to trust it to transform our economies, societies and characters for the better.
“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’ whispered Anne softly.”
The end of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
In my contribution to the National Post’s defence of capitalism, I say economic freedom is the victim of its own success, having delivered the promised prosperity but not the freedom from personal responsibility some misguided zealots thought it should, allowing them to rush us along the Road to Serfdom by blaming capitalism for not doing something it never attempted and never should have.
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.”
C.S. Lewis quoted by Russ Kosits in Convivium Vol. 2 #11 (December 2013 - January 2014) - Kosits calls it “the ‘argument from desire’ made famous by C.S. Lewis”