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A geek with cheek

Vincenzina Santoro | 9 Feb 2010 |
tags: Bill Gates, Italy, philanthropy

What right has Bill Gates to dress down Italy and its prime minister?

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Germany’s awful choice

Marko Papic and Peter Zeihan | 9 Feb 2010 |
tags: Germany, Global Financial Crisis, Greece

In the not too distant future, Greece will probably default on its national debt. How will the EU's most powerful economy react?

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Citizens United and the problem of modern judicial activism

Carson Holloway | 9 Feb 2010 |
tags: judicial activism, law, Supreme Court

Why the concept of “strict scrutiny” is alien to the Constitution and why it poses a threat to a constitutionally defensible judicial review.

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Super Bowl battle:  abortion, a pro, and a choice

Sheila Liaugminas | 6 Feb 2010 |
tags: abortion, Super Bowl, Tim Tebow

Controversy over an ad for the big event makes you wonder what some folks mean by 'choice'.

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Muslim face veils: religious right, or security risk?

Angela Shanahan | 6 Feb 2010 |
tags: face veils, France, Muslims

In an opening article on this issue an Australian journalist says veils are a security risk in the West and should be banned in public.

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Guttmacher’s spin on ‘teen pregnancy’

Pia de Solenni | 5 Feb 2010 |
tags: Alan Guttmacher Institute, teen pregnancy

If you count adolescents old enough to vote and enlist, sure the pregnancy rate went up.

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Avatar blues

Tony Curzon Price | 5 Feb 2010 |
tags: Avatar, ecology, films

The film depresses by placing hope in a blind life force, not in human agency.

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Give me a little respect, baby, ooo…

Bill Muehlenberg | 5 Feb 2010 |
tags: abortion, Australian politics, social engineering

The Australian state of Victoria has appointed a Minister for Respect. He might as well sing for it.

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Monaco to Mongolia: population density and prosperity

Vincenzina Santoro | 3 Feb 2010 |
tags: population density, quality of life

The next big population bogeyman could well be 'overcrowding'. Should we worry?

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Read-only: iPad as a consumer device

Marcus Gilroy-Ware | 3 Feb 2010 |
tags: consumerism, democracy, iPad

The iPad could have played a major part in the shift towards a more democratised, read-write culture. But it hasn’t happened: why not?

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J D Salinger’s American Dream

Barbara Kay | 2 Feb 2010 |
tags: books, J D Salinger, obituaries

A quest for authenticity that turned prolonged immaturity into an ideal.

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