On the surface the Copenhagen summit was about cutting carbon emissions, but the situation reminds me of Robin Hanson’s well known countrarian notion that politics is not about policy: Civics teachers talk as if politics is about policy, that politics is our system for choosing policies to deal with common problems. But as Tyler Cowen suggests, real [...]
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I’m absolutely enthralled by this, both emotionally and intellectually. My passion is driving me to reason that we’re in the midst of one of history’s great moments. Historians a century from now will yearn to imagine what it was like to actually experience these changes (I mean the large-scale shifts). Let’s not squander this. We’ll [...]
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Before I even get to Canada I want to make sure it’s understood how critical the next year or two will be. I consider myself fairly well informed and I regularly find myself having to be reminded of the seriousness of things on the global stage. Foreign policy has been pushed a bit to the side [...]
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Quite a contrast from Where Canada Stands: Pakistan moved closer to a balance of payments crisis on Friday, as the rupee slumped to a record low after the central bank reported it had barely enough foreign currency to cover six weeks of imports. [Reuters]
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