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Would euthanasia damage doctors?

Margaret Somerville | 18 November 2009 |
tags: euthanasia
Legalising euthanasia will have incalculable consequences for healthcare professionals.


It’s not censorship, it’s parenting!

Erin Manning | 18 November 2009 |
tags: books, censorship, parenting
Removing books that are inappropriate for our kids is not the same as banning books.

Deciphering the Mohammed Trial

George Friedman | 18 November 2009 |
tags: 911, international law, Stratfor
Trying the mastermind behind 9/11 in a federal court in Manhattan raises thorny questions in international law.


Transforming and troubling

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 16 November 2009 |
tags: mobile phones, Nigeria
Mobile phones are spreading rapidly throughout Africa, bring the blessings of commerce, and the curse of spam.

Have death panels already arrived?

Nancy Valko | 12 November 2009 |
tags: death panels, Obamacare
The case against: an experienced nurse worries that Obamacare will entrench an existing quality-of-life ethic. 

Give me ObamaCare and my grandmom is doomed?

Summer Johnson | 12 November 2009 |
tags: death panels, Obamacare
The case for: a leading American bioethicist defends the Obama Administration’s proposals as fairer, cheaper and more trustworthy.

A continent where Communism lingers on

Pedro Jose Izquierdo | 12 November 2009 |
tags: Communism, Ecuador, Latin America, rationalism
The fall of the Berlin Wall restored common sense to Europe, but what about Latin America?


Lessons from a beauty pageant

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 November 2009 |
tags: Carrie Prejean, Christian, family values
For all her courage under fire, Carrie Prejean was never the right choice to front family values.

A Christmas Carol

Leticia Velasquez | 11 November 2009 |
tags: Christmas, films
Jim Carrey is brilliant in this retelling of the classic Christmas story -- this time with stunning computer-generated effects.

Heil Herr Heidegger?

Richard Umbers | 11 November 2009 |
tags: Julian Savulescu, Martin Heidegger, Peter Singer, philosophy
An attack on a flawed philosopher shows the deficiencies of political correctness.

The other 1989s

Fred Halliday | 09 November 2009 |
tags: 1989, Communism, Eastern Europe
While the break-up of the Soviet empire brought freedom to Eastern Europe, elsewhere the consequences were often destructive and deadly.

Why we remember

John Robson | 09 November 2009 |
tags: Flanders Fields, Remembrance Day, war
Remembrance Day is not a pacifist occasion but a recollection of  our solemn contract with those who have fallen.

Departures

Walter Pless | 05 November 2009 |
tags: Academy Awards, death, Japan
It's hard to infuse death with luminous beauty, but Japanese director Yojiro Takita succeeds magnificently in this year's best foreign film.

Toddlers and TV sets don’t mix

Kevin Ryan | 05 November 2009 |
tags: character education, education, IQ
The folly of trying to teach babies by plonking them in front of a television has finally been confirmed.

On burying the dead

Carolyn Moynihan | 05 November 2009 |
tags: death, funerals
The last of the corporal works of mercy seems to be in terminal decline.

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