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Dressing up old ideas in post-modern clothes
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Post-modern literary theory is touted as the latest and greatest, but
it is actually based on an old-fashioned approach to how we know
things.
Is English law incoherent about life?
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A series of decisions about English law in right-to-life cases over the
last 15 years threatens the traditional view of the sanctity of life.
Development requires virtue, says Nobel Peace Prize winner
MercatorNet interviews 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement.
The noble art of statesmanship
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If one is looking for a model statesman, it is difficult to go past
Thomas More, the English Lord Chancellor who lost his head for
resisting Henry VIII.
Another side to African debt relief
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Despite the well-publicised generosity of the G8 countries in forgiving
US$18 billion of their country's debt, ordinary Nigerians are not
rejoicing.
Weakening the rights of children
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Sure, adults deserve to have their fundamental human rights protected.
But why don't we set the same standard for their children?
Why do science?
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The West is losing its scientific lead in the world and governments
are looking for ways to attract more young people to the laboratory. But can
they succeed against the attractions of a consumer society?
A challenge for Filipino families
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Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says
a leading economist in an exclusive
MercatorNet interview. Big families
are the ultimate resource.
Jurassic theories
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An expert on dinosaurs claims to have delivered a killer blow to the
credentials of religion by examining international health statistics.
It's not very convincing.
Your gender is not an accident
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The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained
credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has
been a great mistake.
Don?t get stuck on stupid, media
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Why did a credulous American media believe the grim fairy tales of
murder, rape and pillage in New Orleans even though there was precious
little evidence for them?
Enlarging the family
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Is three the new two? Moves in France and elsewhere to stave off
population decline are drawing attention to the importance of bigger
families.
New Age alchemist turns words into money
The best-selling fable
The Alchemist contains the quintessence of Paulo Coelho's philosophy.
Cashing in on the rage for New Age
The ideas of New Age gurus are worse than twaddle about crystals and
dolphins: they’re appallingly self-centred. Take Paulo Coelho's latest
novel, for instance.
This health and safety stuff is pure bull
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Fussy Eurocrats and their regulations wouldn't get within a bull's roar
of the fiesta in a small corner of Spain in early September.
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