In my latest National Post column I explain that China's reversal on the one-child policy is a stunning intellectual event of the first importance.

Columns, Family and Gender, History, International, National Post, Social policyJohn RobsonNovember 9, 2015

My appearance on Dave Scheider's e-cosmoetica

Host Dan Schneider invited me on his online program this weekend to discuss modern confusion about race and gender. Excuse the weak connection; I was at the cottage, on rural "internet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IU9kBhbD4A

Family and Gender, Podcast, Politics, Social policy, United StatesJohn RobsonSeptember 29, 2015

A mistake whose time has (logically) come

In my latest National Post column I ask why we should want women in combat when we don't want them competing against men in sports.

Columns, Family and Gender, Military, National PostJohn RobsonSeptember 21, 2015

Postmodern identity puzzles

In my latest National Post column I ask why a person can change their gender but not their race.

Abortion, Columns, Family and Gender, National Post, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 22, 2015

Let's get this over with

In my latest National Post column I argue for trying the best imaginable government welfare system, the Negative Income Tax, in order to learn the bitter lesson that government welfare doesn't fail when money doesn't reach the intended beneficiaries but when it does reach them.

Budget, Columns, Economics, Family and Gender, Government, National Post, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 15, 2015

Another helping of nonsense

In my latest National Post column, I tell the government waiter I didn't order this patronizing rubbish.

Arts & culture, Columns, Economics, Education, Environment, Family and Gender, Government, Health care, History, National Post, Science & Technology, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 1, 2015

Where compassion apparently stops

Are social conservatives treated like lepers in Canadian public debate? They should be so lucky, says my latest National Post column.

Columns, Family and Gender, Media, National Post, Politics, ReligionJohn RobsonMay 19, 2015

Solving the human equation - not!

My latest National Post column criticizes the obsession with solving mankind's problems, in this case poverty, with advanced mathematics, as though humans were things not people.

Columns, Economics, Family and Gender, Government, National Post, Science & Technology, Social policy, United StatesJohn RobsonMay 11, 2015