The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, December 22"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/161222Rebel.mp3[/podcast]
"The mark of civilization, says [Yale professor David] Gelernter, is the shortening of the list of reasons that justify taking human life. But now footnotes are being added to the list." Richard John Neuhaus in First Things January 2004
Wrapping up 2016 and looking forward to 2017, a word of thanks to all those who made our documentary work possible in the past year.
"This book argues that our civilization depends, not only for its origin but also for its preservation, on what can be precisely described only as the extended order of human cooperation, an order more commonly, if somewhat misleadingly, known as capitalism." First sentence in Friedrich Hayek The Fatal Conceit
In a Christmastime piece for Convivium (a Cardus publication) today I explain how my lack of musical talent has lately come to seem a valuable, if peculiar, gift.
In my latest National Post column I argue that the horrifying fate of Aleppo reminds us that things are better in Canada than in most of the world, and that they are better because of our beliefs and habits, a.k.a. our "Canadian values".
"Sow a thought and you reap an act;/ Sow an act and you reap a habit;/ Sow a habit and you reap a character;/ Sow a character and you reap a destiny." "Anonymous" quoted by Michael Novak in Business as a Calling
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, December 19"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/Ask_Professor_69.mp3[/podcast]