Denyse O'Leary

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The fallacy of a happy, productive and ageing work force

17 May 2013 |

tags: ageing population, demography, workforce

Glib answers will not conjure away the hard, cold fact that workers everywhere are getting older and older.





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Brain explosion: big neuroscience teams up with Obama

8 Mar 2013 |

tags: economics, love, neuroscience

The US President is backing a brain activity map project that would cost billions and may be fatally flawed.





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A case for bureaucratic clawback

1 Feb 2013 |

tags: animal welfare, justice, subsidiarity

When a fight over a cat goes to federal court it is time to call on a Catholic principle.





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Unlearning Liberty

28 Nov 2012 |

tags: book reviews, freedom of speech, higher education

American universities are discouraging students from expressing controversial views.





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Won’t Back Down

11 Oct 2012 |

tags: education, film reviews, USA

This inspiring film about America's failing schools has a radical diagnosis: shake off the dead hand of the teachers' unions.





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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

6 Jul 2012 |

tags: Barack Obama, book reviews

In an age of political messianism The Amateur may represent the last man standing.





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What can a brain scan tell us about ourselves?

28 Jun 2012 |

tags: politics, science

Can brain scans detect whether we lean politically to the left or to the right?





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You can tell it’s an election year when…

17 May 2012 |

tags: 2012 elections, psychology

Some psychology researchers are demonizing or marginalizing voters with opposing views and calling it “science.”





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Coming Apart: The State of White America

27 Mar 2012 |

tags: books, marriage, sociology

A new book describes the white working class cut adrift from the institutions of marriage and the church.





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Why America might pull through the demographic collapse

31 Oct 2011 |

tags: demography, population, USA

it is mainly religious people who raise children, and more women in America are religious.





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