January 29, 2025

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

The Falklands thing [the ten-week undeclared war in 1981 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over a few