“[They use] statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”

“Andrew Lang, Scottish humourist” quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion

“the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”

“Eric Temple Bell, the mathematician” quoted in National Review June 7, 1993

In my latest National Post column I say we seem to have lost sight of what we’re trying to do on the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially ominous consequences.

In my latest Epoch Times column I diagnose a strange ailment that makes Canadian public figures unable to hear or say words like “Taiwan” or “China” or to see misdeeds by the Communist regime.

In my latest National Post column I take aim at the political habit of constantly praising diversity in theory while consistently trying to squash it in practice, including in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.