In my latest National Post column I say Hillary Clinton just cleared up the mystery of her election defeat. She was responsible.
"As long as history is regarded as ‘philosophy teaching by examples’ drawn from real life, this tendency to write up the virtues of past ages will persist. So long also will classical scholars be tempted to seek to enhance the value of their subject by dwelling with enthusiasm upon the moral worth of the Romans." F.R. Cowell, Cicero and the Roman Republic
In my latest National Post column I say if the Senate can write silly patronizing children's books for adults, I can too. Please send me money.
"As someone once said, the price of sheltering people from their own folly is to fill the world with fools." Link Byfield in British Columbia Report June 10, 1996
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, May 2, 2017"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2017/May/ATP20170502.mp3[/podcast]
"Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality..." Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" T.S. Eliot, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail January 31, 2012
"If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 20, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #6 (April-May 2008)