David T. Koyzis

With the recent presidential election behind us, it may behoove us to pay attention to the wisdom of the past relative to the form of government we know as democracy: I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that . . . . Continue Reading »

Dabblers are compelled by their very dabbling to disdain those who will not dabble and who persist in believing the truth claims of one particular religion. Continue Reading »

This story has been picked up by pro-life and Roman Catholic publications but has been largely ignored by the mainstream media here in Ontario: Ontario Official: Catholic Schools Can’t Teach “Misogynistic” Pro-life.The Education Minister of Ontario, Canada — a professing . . . . Continue Reading »

Is America becoming the next France? Is our political system becoming as polarized as that of the French Third and Fourth Republics?According to the late British political scientist, Sir Bernard Crick, politics is the art of conciliating diversity peacefully in a given unit of rule. Some political . . . . Continue Reading »

Edward Alfred Goerner was longtime professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and I was privileged to have him as my PhD supervisor more than 25 years ago.The first thing one noticed about Goerner was his flair for the dramatic in both mannerism and dress. He . . . . Continue Reading »

“This fuzziness about the origins of our nationhood is one of the things that distinguishes us as Canadians from our American cousins.”How do American and Canadian national mythologies differ? Read here to find . . . . Continue Reading »

This is my latest column in Christian Courier, published 10 September. Please subscribe today.Once upon a time the Democratic and Republican Parties were big-tent organizations, trying to appeal to as wide a swath of public opinion as they could manage. Although the Republicans were generally . . . . Continue Reading »

Although Poland as a whole did not embrace the Reformation in the 16th century, the country nevertheless managed to produce a metrical psalter of high quality that is virtually unknown by outsiders. This is the Psa?terz Dawidów, or David’s Psalter, consisting of 150 metrical texts by the . . . . Continue Reading »

More than a century ago, Englishman Henry Alexander Glass happened upon an old copy of the Tate and Brady metrical psalter dated 1771 in an old book stall. By the 1880s metrical psalters, while still in use in Scotland, had long ceased to be used liturgically in England, so Glass, curious about the . . . . Continue Reading »

Do Americans expect too much of the president of the United States, and do presidential candidates themselves unwisely encourage such unrealistic expectations in voters? Read the complete article . . . . Continue Reading »