The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, December 29"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/Ask_Professor_71.mp3[/podcast]
"what Milton Friedman called TANSTAAFL – 'There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.'" William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy
"Sam Spade: Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this. Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk." The Maltese Falcon
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." G.K. Chesterton in his Autobiography, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani Chesterton University Student Handbook
"And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger." Luke 2:16
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.