The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, April 20"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2017/April/ATP170420.mp3[/podcast]

If you know somebody at a Canadian university who's interested in free markets and individual liberty, let them know about the Dobson Bursary available through the Institute for Liberal Studies. The application deadline is June 30, 2017.

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." Bill Vaughan, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail June 1, 2009

In my latest National Post column I argue for marijuana legalization because free adults should make their own choices... and it is not always wrong to get high including on alcohol, nicotine or pot.

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail July 11 2012

In my latest National Post column I argue that property rights and human rights are synonymous, in practice and at the deepest level.

"He has risen without a trace." Richard Lowry in National Review Sept. 10, 2007 (applying it to a now-forgotten politician, Lowry says the insult was originally applied to TV interviewer David Frost)