In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Canadian government’s reflexive habit of concealing any information they might or might not possess is especially unhelpful on COVID-19.

“We are really bags of water with things in it.”

John Steart Collis Living with a Stranger

In my latest National Post column I caution people who wish Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would “do something” about the crises facing Canada, from blockades to COVID-19 to the collapse of the Teck Frontier mine, that in his mind emoting is action. What we really need is for him to do something else.

“'You believe in God only because you were taught to believe in God in childhood.' Is that something like saying that I believe in arithmetic only because I was taught to believe in arithmetic in childhood?”

J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the push to approve the use of Huawei equipment in our 5G network is a classic case of selling them the rope with which they intend to hang us.

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

This quotation is hard to source because it seems to originate with Roger Sessions in 1950. But Sessions said Einstein had said it "in effect" and since then it has been very widely attributed to Einstein because who ever heard of Roger Sessions (I hadn’t; turns out he was a composer) whereas Einstein’s the guy with the giant brain and hairdo to match. The Quote Investigator says while Einstein did express this idea at various times it is probably Sessions who, while deflecting the credit, actually created the concise, beloved and much quoted version above.

“To say that something is ‘natural’ means not that it is inevitable, but that the potential for it exists in the genotype. This in turn implies that it is merely prudent to bear in mind the potential of that ‘natural’ behavior and act accordingly. [Robert] Wright approvingly cites Francis Bacon, who announced, ‘Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.’”

Lionel Tiger reviewing Wright's Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny in National Review March 6, 2000