Michael Cook

Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. He also writes a bioethics column for Australasian Science and contributes occasional op-ed pieces to newspapers and websites in the US, UK and Australia.

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The other controversial legacy

16 Apr 2013 |

tags: bioethics, IVF, Nobel Prize, Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards, the inventor of IVF, died two days after Margaret Thatcher. History may show that his impact was even greater than hers.





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Is the one-child policy spoiling China’s children?

12 Apr 2013 |

tags: China, demography, one-child policy

Research confirms all the cliches about "little emperors", the children of parents who were forced to stop at one.





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Jumping on the bandwagon

5 Apr 2013 |

tags: same-sex marriage, US

We should have expected that politicians would line up to support gay marriage.





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Another man from a far country

14 Mar 2013 |

tags: Francis, secular humanism, Vatican

Will a Pope from Argentina be able to brake the increasing secularisation of life in the West?





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Scotland’s spiritual scandal

9 Mar 2013 |

tags: BBC, Catholic Church, scandal, Scotland

Disheartened Catholics mustn't waste a good crisis after the disgrace of Cardinal Keith O'Brien.





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Taking same-sex marriage step by step

5 Mar 2013 |

tags: polyamory, relationships, same-sex marriage

Whether you call it polygamy, or polyamory, or consensual nonmonogamy, the notion of multiple partners in a single relationship is just over the horizon.





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Moving forward: what name will the next Pope choose?

1 Mar 2013 |

tags: Catholic Church, papacy

The odds on who will be elected are very long, but we have some good tips on what name he will choose.





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What money can’t buy

26 Feb 2013 |

tags: book reviews, commodification, market economy, utilitarianism

What is the proper role of money and markets in a democratic society? How can we protect the priceless goods in moral and civic life from being bought and sold?





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Books for fun and inspiration…

26 Feb 2013 |

tags: book lists, cheerfulness

… and an antidote for the over-cheerful. All good literature, though.





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The myth of disappearing Lebanese Christians

20 Feb 2013 |

tags: demography, Lebanon

A bombshell report shows that Christians are making a demographic comeback in Lebanon because of tumbling Muslim birth rates.





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