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Copenhagen: a deal of sorts

Brian Lilley | 19 December 2009 |
tags: China, climate change, Copenhagen, United Nations
The push for a global, legally binding deal could not overcome national self-interest

Infidelity: in spite of everything, we still care

John Robson | 18 December 2009 |
tags: morality, Tiger Woods
There is an encouraging lesson in the public reaction to the Tiger Woods scandal.


Selfless saviours of a new faith

Mariette Ulrich | 17 December 2009 |
tags: climate change, free speech, religion
The church of climate change is on a mission to convert the infidels. But does it believe in free will?


Guess who invented ‘holiday trees’

Joanna Bogle | 17 December 2009 |
tags: Christmas, Nazis, secularism
Today’s secularist zealots should be unhappy to learn exactly whose company they are travelling in.

What science knows and how it knows it

Richard Umbers | 17 December 2009 |
tags: post-modernism, science, scientism
A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.

Adolescents in a pornified culture

Patrick F. Fagan | 15 December 2009 |
tags: adolescence, pornography
By undermining marriage and family life, by assailing them on the internet, pornography is doing serious harm to young people.

2009: The Year of Obama

George Friedman | 15 December 2009 |
tags: foreign policy, Obama, Stratfor
Like Ronald Reagan, President Obama is persuasive, polarizing and enigmatic. But his charm may not be enough to power his foreign policy.

Yes, Virginia, it’s a Christmas tree

Christina Nicholas | 14 December 2009 |
tags: Christmas, Obama
If officially Communist Beijing celebrates Christmas with gusto, why do Westerners fret about offending non-Christians with trees, carols and decorations?

Terminating Korea’s abortion culture

Sang-duk Shim | 12 December 2009 |
tags: abortion, Korea
A Korean gynaecologist explains why he abandoned a lucrative procedure and is campaigning to reduce abortions.


A climate-change moment for marriage

Carolyn Moynihan | 11 December 2009 |
tags: family policy, marriage
A report about families from Britain says forget about marriage; another report from the United States says save it. They can’t both be right.

Kenya’s World Cup farce

Joseph Magiri | 11 December 2009 |
tags: Kenya, soccer, World Cup
Soccer fever has gripped Kenya in the lead-up to the World Cup in South Africa next year.

Americans in Paris

Francis Phillips | 11 December 2009 |
tags: World War II
Unlike the proprietor of Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca, some of his compatriots stayed in Paris.


Can evolution explain religion?

Denyse O'Leary | 10 December 2009 |
tags: evolution, evolutionary psychology, religion
Evolutionary psychologists offer two contradictory explanations for the existence of religion. They can't both be right, but they can both be wrong.


Minarets in the Alps?

Michael Cook | 09 December 2009 |
tags: Islam, minarets, Switzerland
Why are the Swiss so rattled by their Muslim neighbours that they have voted to ban minarets?

The originality of Thomas Berry, environmentalist

Marie I. George | 09 December 2009 |
tags: environment, theology, Thomas Berry
A posthumous acquaintance with the work of an eco-theologian leaves this writer roundly disappointed.

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