Episodes
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Ask the Professor - Maxime Bernier's People's Party - February 20, 2019
What you think of Maxime Bernier's People's Party and its likely effects in the next federal election?
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Ask the Professor - Checking judges - February 13, 2019
If we allow judges to effectively make law, what is the check against those judges?
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Ask the Professor - Frankl on decision not condition - February 6, 2019
"some of our comrades behave like swines while others behave like saints. Man has both potentials within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions not on conditions." - Victor Frankl "Man's Search for Meaning"
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Ask the Professor - Completely private education - January 30, 2019
Was Ludwig von Mises right that "the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and...
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Ask the Professor - Notwithstanding - January 23, 2019
How can people call the Notwithstanding Clause "unconstitutional" when it's in our Constitution, and was included in the Charter of Rights specifically to protect Parliament's lawmaking authority given the newly increased importance of the judiciary?
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Ask the Professor - Nietzsche - January 16, 2019
What explains the fascination with Nietzsche?
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Ask the Professor - Language Culture & the State - January 9, 2019
What role should the state play in protecting language and culture?
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Ask the Professor - Lawlessness - January 2, 2019
What five questions would you use to add a Lawful-Lawless axis to the World's Smallest Political Quiz?
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Ask the Professor - Fake News - December 12, 2018
How can we tell the "Fake news" from the fake news?
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Ask the Professor - Believing in Canada - December 5, 2018
Given Americans’ far greater pride in their heritage of freedom do you ever get discouraged about Canada and think of moving south?
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Ask the Professor - Cultural Marxism - November 28, 2018
Can you explain cultural Marxism?
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Ask the Professor - Public and Private Debt - November 22 2018
How are public and private debt different?
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Ask the Professor - Night Watchman state - November 14 2018
Can we afford a "night watchman" state?
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Ask the Professor - Selling Kidneys - November 7, 2018
Should selling kidneys be legal?
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Ask the Professor - the Pope and Magna Carta - Oct. 31, 2018
Why did the Pope oppose Magna Carta?
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Ask the Professor - Thomas Sowell's Philosophy - October 3, 2018
Can you comment on and summarize Thomas Sowell's philosophy?
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Ask the Professor - MeToo Movement - September 26, 2018
If the #metoo movement goes to far, does it risk ruining the lives of the innocent by denying due process yet leading people upset at its excesses to ignore actual victims?
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Ask the Professor - Failure of the Meech Lake Accord - September 19, 2018
What are the lessons from the failure of the Meech Lake Accord?
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Ask the Professor - Filmer's Patriarcha on the Divine Right of Kings - September 12, 2018
Please discuss Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.
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Ask the Professor - Jerry Pournelle's political ideology chart - September 5, 2018
How useful is Jerry Pournelle's famous political chart?
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Ask the Professor - Education and Social Cohesion - August 29, 2018
How can a decentralized, publicly funded but privately run education system ensure that your child and mine can communicate?
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Ask the Professor - Judeo Christian Foundations of Our Laws - August 22, 2018
Aren't our laws and institutions based on Judeo-Christian values? Aren't they in the Magna Carta?
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Ask the Professor - Media, Ignorance and Democracy - August 15, 2018
How large a role do the media play in purveying ignorance and undermining democracy?
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Ask the Professor - Utilitarian Governments - August 8, 2018
Are modern governments vulnerable to utilitarian arguments or a manifestation of them?
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Ask the Professor - Conscience - August 1, 2018
Does conscience come from religion, culture, natural law or all of them?
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Ask the Professor - Henry VIII Clauses - July 25, 2018
When does the authority of regulations under an Act exceed the authority of the Act itself?
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Ask the Professor - The Man Who Was Thursday - July 18, 2018
Why G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is so interesting.
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Ask the Professor - Democracy v Republic - June 27, 2018
What is the distinction between a democracy and a republic?
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Ask the Professor - Tribunals and Sexual Assault - June 20, 2018
How can the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal be making decisions in sexual assault cases given that it's a Criminal Code offence and the standard of proof is lower at the tribunal than in a criminal court?
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Ask the Professor - Public School Salaries - June 13, 2018
Are public school salaries too high, especially given that they're paid for by compulsory taxes not voluntary arrangements?
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Ask the Professor - Social Credit - June 6, 2018
What is Social Credit, the theory and the parties?
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Ask the Professor - Government debt - May 30, 2018
Given how much governments spend on programs and operations, how can they ever hope to pay back the enormous sums they have borrowed on our behalf? And what happens if they don't try?
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Ask the Professor - David Suzuki's honorary degree - May 23, 2018
How should citizens, energy industry workers and energy industry companies react to David Suzuki getting an honorary degree from the University of Alberta?
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Ask the Professor - Common Law - May 16, 2018
How important is the common law in understanding our Constitutional order?
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Ask the Professor - Trans Mountain Expansion - May 9, 2018
What should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have said about Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans Mountain Expansion? In fact what matters is what he should have done: Make it happen.
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Ask the Professor - #MeToo and Traditional Values - May 2, 2018
Will the #MeToo movement help people rediscover traditional sexual morals given that men and women feel sufficiently differently about sex that even formal explicit consent can leave a woman feeling used afterwards?
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Ask the Professor - Global Warming and Pollution - April 25, 2018
Why do people assume if you question man-made climate change orthodoxy that you don't care about pollution, and how should we answer that charge?
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Ask the Professor - Government Is Force - April 18, 2018
John Robson explains why he frequently says "government is force"
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Ask the Professor - What Happened to British Free Speech - April 11, 2018
John Robson discusses how a Scottish man can be tried for teaching his girlfriend's dog a Nazi salute if the UK has free speech going back to Magna Carta
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Robson on CFRA with Rob Snow on government regulating Facebook April 6, 2018
Clip of John Robson on News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with Rob Snow April 6, 2018, discussing suggestions for greater government regulation of Facebook
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Robson on CFRA with Rob Snow on Liberal arrogance April 6, 2018
Clip of John Robson on News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with Rob Snow April 6, 2018, discussing the increasingly out-of-control arrogance of the federal Liberals
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Robson on CFRA with Rob Snow on the politics of climate change April 6, 2018
Clip of John Robson on News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with Rob Snow April 6, 2018, discussing why politicians are so closed-mindedly belligerent on man-made climate change despite the lack of evidence
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Ask the Professor - Where to Start with G.K. Chesterton - April 4, 2018
What is the best place to start reading G.K. Chesterton? His fiction? His essays? His longer non-fiction?
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Ask the Professor - Wife-beating a century ago - March 28, 2018
Is Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland right that a century ago almost all women were beaten by their husbands?
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Robson on CFRA with Rob Snow on social media March 23 2018
Clip of John Robson on News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with Rob Snow March 23, 2018, discussing whether social media are addictive and harmful
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Robson on CFRA with Rob Snow on Artificial Intelligence March 23 2018
Clip of John Robson on News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with Rob Snow March 23, 2018, discussing the worrying pace at which AI is developing creative and intuitive abilities
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Ask the Professor - Terrorism and Innocent Civilians - March 21, 2018
John Robson discusses whether it is appropriate to talk of terrorist attacks on "innocent civilians" when all citizens are in some sense complicit in the conduct of their government?
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Ask the Professor - Euthanasia and Duelling - March 14, 2018
John Robson discussing whether, if we can consent to be killed through euthanasia, can we again engage in duels?
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Ask the Professor - Canada Summer Jobs Grant - March 7, 2018
Is the restriction of CSJ grants to those who vocally favour abortion an attack on religious freedom. If so, since there is no absolute Charter right to abortion on demand, might a court challenge overturn the policy?
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Ask the Professor - Restoring Parliamentary Supremacy - February 28, 2018
Was parliamentary supremacy the key to our constitutional order and if so isn't the Notwithstanding Clause a pale substitute?
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