Scott Masson

Scott Masson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University. Visit his website Paideia Today. for a free Visual Guide to the Odyssey. You can also follow him on Substack and YouTube.

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The Moral Framework of the Odyssey

Part 2. Why the Odyssey still matters

Viewpoints July 19, 2026
The ‘Odyssey’: The 1st Great Book of the West

Part 1. Why the 'Odyssey' still matters.

Viewpoints July 17, 2026
The Demonizing of Charlie Kirk by the ‘Included Middle’

Commentary ‘Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. ...

Viewpoints September 21, 2025
The Tragedy of the Commons: Individual Freedom and Responsibility Crushed by Emergencies Act Sledgehammer

Commentary “A classic problem in environmental economics is the tragedy of the commons. The solution to it lies in ...

Viewpoints February 26, 2022
Workers of the World Unite–Against Despotism

Commentary ‘Rebellion is always an evil. It is always an offence against the law of a nation. It ...

Viewpoints February 11, 2022
The Winter of Our Discontent: Truckers’ Convoy Seeking Return of Liberty Elicits Hope, Amasses Support

Commentary Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York The opening ...

Viewpoints January 29, 2022
Why Is the UN Dictating Canada’s Provincial Health Policies?

Commentary This sickness doth infect/ The very life-blood of our enterprise. — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 According ...

Viewpoints October 5, 2021
No End in Sight to Politicians’ Draconian Measures in War Against COVID

Commentary When false philosophies have been cultivated and have attained a wide sphere of dominion in the world ...

Viewpoints October 4, 2021
Are the Unvaxxed the Enemy of the People?

Commentary "The principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it ...

Viewpoints September 21, 2021
How Has It Happened That Politicians Deny Universal Human Rights in Canada?

Commentary “The father of the modern human rights system is John Humphrey.” — Nelson Mandela New Brunswick’s own John Humphrey ...

Canada September 14, 2021
Scientism, Democracy, and Totalitarianism

Commentary "Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring ...

Viewpoints September 14, 2021
Do National COVID Mandates Fulfill the Public Good?

Commentary A crisis has now darkened Western democracies just as surely as long-benighted dictatorships. Wherein does it lie? ...

Viewpoints August 28, 2021