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You can tell it’s an election year when…

Denyse O'Leary | 17 May 2012 |
tags: 2012 election, psychology

Some psychology researchers are demonizing or marginalizing voters with opposing views and calling it “science.”

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Will France take a new strategic direction under Hollande?

George Friedman | 16 May 2012 |
tags: France, international relations

Will the new French president end up playing the Gaullist hand?

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101 books Gen Ys must read before they die

Michael Cook | 16 May 2012 |
tags: book reviews, culture

Looking for controversy? Here it is: the must-read list for people who hate to read.

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Without the marriage plot, what’s left of the novel?

Mark Bauerlein | 15 May 2012 |
tags: literature, marriage, post-modernism

When romance and marriage are entirely an individual thing the drama of the characters narrows accordingly.

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Ottawa’s award-winning way of killing off childhood

Michael Coren | 14 May 2012 |
tags: Canada, childhood, sexual education

A tell-all exhibition in a national museum normalizes sexual experimentation for kids -- with government funding.

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Better than IVF

Anthony J. Caruso | 12 May 2012 |
tags: bioethics, fertility, IVF

Infertility is a complex problem. But one thing is certain: don't make children a postscript to a career.

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Obama devolves

Robert R. Reilly | 11 May 2012 |
tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, same-sex marriage

The President has twisted immutable truths in the Constitution and Christianity into their opposites.

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Is it time to euthanase those Nazi arguments?

Zac Alstin | 11 May 2012 |
tags: euthanasia, Godwin's law, Nazis

Comparisons with Nazi policies are not necessarily "cheap shots", but they often are. How to tell the difference?

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Putin faces a changing Europe

George Friedman | 10 May 2012 |
tags: Putin, Russia, Stratfor

Personal relationships with heads of state give way to new geopolitical dynamics.

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Religion has its rights in the public square

David Cortman | 9 May 2012 |
tags: religious freedom

There are no historical or rational grounds for denying faith a public voice.

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A ground-breaking abortion study from Chile

Elard Koch | 8 May 2012 |
tags: abortion, Chile

Before 1989 abortion was legal in Chile; after 1989 it was illegal. The author of a controversial study explains what happened to women's health.

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Chile study challenges the “safe abortion” myth

Carolyn Moynihan | 8 May 2012 |
tags: abortion, Chile, maternal mortality

Contrary to claims, a ban on abortion is consistent with one of the world’s lowest maternal mortality rates.

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The debate Canada needs to have

Margaret Somerville | 8 May 2012 |
tags: abortion, Canada

Why are Canadians reluctant to have a debate about the ethics of destroying the most vulnerable human life?

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Is it better never to have been born?

Michael Cook | 8 May 2012 |
tags: bioethics, children, utilitarianism

The joys of bringing a child into the world are not persuasive for some contemporary philosophers.

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The shining city on a hill slams its doors

Constance Kong | 7 May 2012 |
tags: Chen Guangcheng, China, human rights

The Obama Administration's treatment of two Chinese dissidents has been shameful.

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The unaccountable popularity of “The Scream”

Carolyn Moynihan | 4 May 2012 |
tags: art, Edvard Munch

Edward Munch's picture of a tortured soul has become the second most famous image in the world, but why?

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