John Robson

What you think of Maxime Bernier's People's Party and its likely effects in the next federal election?

If we allow judges to effectively make law, what is the check against those judges?

"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"

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 institutions."

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?

What explains the fascination with Nietzsche?

What role should the state play in protecting language and culture?

What five questions would you use to add a Lawful-Lawless axis to the World's Smallest Political Quiz?

How can we tell the "Fake news" from the fake news?

Given Americans’ far greater pride in their heritage of freedom do you ever get discouraged about Canada and think of moving south?

Can you explain cultural Marxism?

How are public and private debt different?

Can we afford a "night watchman" state?

Should selling kidneys be legal?

Why did the Pope oppose Magna Carta?

Can you comment on and summarize Thomas Sowell's philosophy?

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?

What are the lessons from the failure of the Meech Lake Accord?

Please discuss Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.

How useful is Jerry Pournelle's famous political chart?

How can a decentralized, publicly funded but privately run education system ensure that your child and mine can communicate?

Aren't our laws and institutions based on Judeo-Christian values? Aren't they in the Magna Carta?

How large a role do the media play in purveying ignorance and undermining democracy?

Are modern governments vulnerable to utilitarian arguments or a manifestation of them?

Does conscience come from religion, culture, natural law or all of them?

When does the authority of regulations under an Act exceed the authority of the Act itself?

Why G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is so interesting.

What is the distinction between a democracy and a republic?

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?

Are public school salaries too high, especially given that they're paid for by compulsory taxes not voluntary arrangements?

What is Social Credit, the theory and the parties?

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?

How should citizens, energy industry workers and energy industry companies react to David Suzuki getting an honorary degree from the University of Alberta?

How important is the common law in understanding our Constitutional order?

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.

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?

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?

John Robson explains why he frequently says "government is force"

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

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

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

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

What is the best place to start reading G.K. Chesterton? His fiction? His essays? His longer non-fiction?

Is Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland right that a century ago almost all women were beaten by their husbands?

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

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

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?

John Robson discussing whether, if we can consent to be killed through euthanasia, can we again engage in duels?

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?

Was parliamentary supremacy the key to our constitutional order and if so isn't the Notwithstanding Clause a pale substitute?

How, if at all, should we deal differently with foreign governments whose values we abhor or that repress their citizens?