In my latest National Post column I say that press releases that declare themselves important reveal themselves as self-important.
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 Convivium I warn that AI threatens our humanity almost as much if it does work as it threatens humanity if it runs amok.
In my latest National Post column I say Ottawa’s overdue, overbudget light rail project is a warning to citizens everywhere about how politicians and contractors underestimate costs and overestimate benefits of projects that, once they start, are “too big to fail” so you have to put up and pay up.
In my latest National Post column I say it’s absurd and ghastly for the major parties each to rail at the other for wanting to tax without spending, as if there were no connection between high program spending and high taxes.