September 27, 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.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]