My latest for The Rebel: The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="The vandals' name lives on"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/161215Rebel.mp3[/podcast]
"The demand for 'relevance' in what is studied has its lazy, philistine and intolerant sides. But relevance has always been sought by readers if not (for good reason) by writers of history, for without a knowledge of his links to the past man is a social amnesiac, intellectually and therefore to some extent emotionally rootless." J.R. Hale Renaissance Europe 1480-1520
"Men do not become sinless by receiving a post in a bureaucracy." G.K. Chesterton in "Preface to Divorce vs. Democracy" quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 19 #8 (July-August 2016)
In my latest National Post column I lament the casual way the Ontario government has breached doctor-patient confidentiality including laughing off search warrants.
My latest for The Rebel: The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, December 8"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/161208Rebel.mp3[/podcast]
My latest for The Rebel: The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, December 1, 2016"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/161201Rebel.mp3[/podcast]
My latest for The Rebel: The enormous and enduring success of the novel Black Beauty, published on Nov. 24 of 1877, in stirring up opposition to cruelty to animals underlines the late Andrew Breitbart's maxim that politics is downstream of culture. If we want to make a difference, we must not forget it.
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, November 24"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/November/161124Rebel.mp3[/podcast]
My latest for The Rebel: The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, Nov. 17"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/November/161117Rebel.mp3[/podcast]