Is there a role for the state in defining marriage?
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, December 24"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/Ask_Professor_70.mp3[/podcast]
"anyone who, walking through the streets at night, hears the bells begin suddenly to laugh and thunder upon Christmas Eve will find it difficult to persuade himself that something of thrilling import to humanity has not at that moment occurred." G.K. Chesterton, "Christmas Day," reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)
In my latest National Post column I look back at the year now ending and say we can be more intelligent and decent in the next one.
"It is true that I do believe in fairy tales; in the sense that I marvel so much at what does exist that I am readier to admit what might." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #4 (January-February 2006)
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