In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask why the legacy media are so reticent about covering suicide but so keen to report all the lurid details on (American) mass shootings
“The nice thing about life is that you never know what is going to happen next. The problem with death is that you do know what is going to happen next. Nothing.”
Steve Bridge, a cryonics enthusiast, quoted in National Review September 2, 1996
In my latest National Post column I say the vehemence of the reaction to Pierre Poilievre, like his own rhetoric, reflects not the vast policy and philosophical differences in Canadian politics but their pettiness.
“The Master said, ‘Men of antiquity studied to improve themselves; men today study to impress others.’”
Confucius Analects XIV.24
“The most common doubt about economists stems from their apparent inability to agree, best captured by George Bernard Shaw’s line that ‘if all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. But economists’ hard-core detractors recognize the superficiality of this complaint. They know that economists regularly see eye-to-eye with one another. A quip from Steven Kelman directly contradicts Shaw: ‘The near-unanimity of the answers economists give to public policy questions, highly controversial among the run of intelligent observers, but which share the characteristic of being able to be analyzed in terms of microeconomic theory, reminds one of the unanimity characterizing bodies such as the politburo of the Soviet Communist Party.’ It is not lack of consensus that incenses knowledgeable critics, but the way economists unite behind unpalatable conclusions, such as doubts about the benefits of regulation.”
Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies,” Cato Policy Analysis #594 (May 29, 2007)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say people arguing over whether government in Canada is “broken” should devise a checklist of the attributes of a genuinely broken government and then see how many of them we’ve got.
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”
Jim Rohn, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email January 31, 2022
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email February 6, 2022