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Raising boys for fun and profit

Kevin Ryan | 31 August 2009 |
tags: boys, character, parenting, temperament
There are things parents can do to help their sons make the leap from stumbling boyhood to manhood.

The Democrats after Kennedy

Godfrey Hodgson | 31 August 2009 |
tags: Edward Kennedy, Obama, United States
What Obama must now do is to articulate a clear, distinct course of policy.

Ted Kennedy’s ambiguous legacy

Michael Cook | 29 August 2009 |
tags: Catholicism, Edward Kennedy, politics, United States
For America’s most famous Catholic, morality and politics had little to do with each other.

All shall be poor

Barbara Kay | 28 August 2009 |
tags: marriage, narcissism, parenting
How today’s sexual narcissists insist on propagating their dreary values.

In defence of moral absolutes

Richard Bastien | 28 August 2009 |
tags: moral absolutes, philosophy, relativism
Forget the modern orthodoxy, there are real moral absolutes worth defending.

My Sister’s Keeper

Jennifer Roback Morse | 27 August 2009 |
tags: reproductive technology, saviour siblings
The screen version of Jodi Picoult's novel poses the question: how much are we entitled to use each other?


Demise of religion exaggerated

David Vincent | 26 August 2009 |
tags: China, Christianity, culture wars, religion
Journalist David Vincent comments on a new book demonstrating the fallacy of the media's view that religion is in terminal decline.

What is civilization?

Francis Phillips | 24 August 2009 |
tags: culture, history, philosophy, sociology
Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.

A world of dignity

Sergio Vieira de Mello | 24 August 2009 |
tags: Brazil, human dignity, human rights, United Nations
The late Sergio Vieira de Mello, a UN special representative in Iraq, believed that while civilisation is plural, human dignity is indivisible.

Big Brother Is Advertising

Marilyn Ryan | 23 August 2009 |
tags: psychology, public opinion, US politics
Is government advertising really aimed at informing, or could it be a form of Big-Brother mind control?

Whole Foods, whole health and a whole big mess

Brian Lilley | 22 August 2009 |
tags: boycott, health care reform, John Mackey, Obamacare, Whole Foods
Does everything, including food, where we shop and how we live have to be divided along partisan lines?

Decline of traditional media

Denyse O'Leary | 20 August 2009 |
tags: culture wars, internet, public opinion, social networking
Should the threat to traditional media from the internet really be a cause for concern?

Culture wars and the political future of the US

Jennifer A. Marshall | 18 August 2009 |
tags: culture wars, family values, health care reform, Obama
The culture wars have not ended with the election of Obama, they will continue to shape American politics.

Demographic Bomb - the movie that says demography is destiny

Andrea Mrozek | 17 August 2009 |
tags: demography, population
What should we make of a movie claiming the human family is headed for decline?

Children are worth having

Barbara Lilley | 17 August 2009 |
tags: children, parenting
Are people who have children selfish? Would the world be better off if more of us were childless?

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