In my latest National Post column I offer good news and bad: we know what's needed to fix our broken governments.
In my latest National Post column I say tax reform would be easier to discuss and accomplish if governments weren't universally desperate for money. So arguably politicians and voters should give more thought to why they are.
"The first impression that one gets of a ruler and of his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him."
Machiavelli, quoted in Dan Rather The Palace Guard
In my latest National Post column I wish news stories would more often refer to government spending being cut, especially by contrast with the lurid and generally inaccurate "slashed".
Jesse Brown of Canadaland just posted an interview with me about The Rebel, Charlottesville and the state of public debate more generally. He and I certainly don't see eye to eye on a lot of things so I appreciate the opportunity to have a civil discussion about our disagreements instead of the sort of shouting match that too often erupts nowadays.
In my latest National Post column I say compassionate, intelligent, constructive discussion of Confederate monuments must begin with forthright recognition that they celebrate racial slavery and bigotry.
In my latest National Post column I say departing Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall was a good man but not a great conservative.
“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”
Aristotle The Politics