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The Beautiful Tree

John Fox | 08 September 2009 |
tags: education, parenting, poverty
A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves.

Time to rein in investment banks?

Bill James | 05 September 2009 |
tags: business, economy, United Kingdom, United States
As economic green shoots appear, is it time to relax, or to redouble efforts to rein in investment bankers?

The guru of philanthropy

Michael Cook | 04 September 2009 |
tags: human dignity, Peter Singer, philanthropy, poverty
Peter Singer's latest cause is lifting billions out of poverty.

Print media will survive

William West | 03 September 2009 |
tags: internet, media, print, public opinion
Despite their ongoing problems and competition from online publications, printed newspapers and magazines still have a strong future.

Why Miley Cyrus is stripping down as she grows up

Wendy Shalit | 01 September 2009 |
tags: Miley Cyrus, pop culture, sexualisation of children
The battle for the soul of America’s favourite 16-year-old is on. Will she be able to resist the scripts that adults are handing her?

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?

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