In my latest Epoch Times column I say the freedom convoy has achieved all the good it could have, and more than it could reasonably have expected, and should withdraw in triumph rather than stay until something really does go wrong.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s amazing that people still think our governments can make us healthy, wealthy, wise and well-housed when they routinely bungle their most elementary responsibilities including national defence, unable even to find weapons for our desperately undersized military.
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”
Titus Livius, aka “Livy” The Early History of Rome
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say the plan to help Ukraine fight off Russian aggression by striking a committee to ponder helping fund an ammunition factory someday is a classically feeble Canadian government response to a real-world problem.
In my latest National Post column I say the cycle of COVID lockdowns is like a bad remake of Groundhog Day, where no lessons get learned
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada is especially vulnerable to the chronic global phenomenon of oversold, over budget, underperforming megaprojects because a widespread conceit that our public sector is world-class leads us to neglect mundane public-sector accountability.
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.
“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution