MercatorNetAn on-line voice for human dignity. We stand for reframing ethical and policy debates in terms of human dignity, not dollars and cents or political calculation.2010-03-16T10:51:43+10:00Copyright (c) 2009, MercatorNettag:mercatornet.com,2009:08:13Lessons from the twilight days of the liberal consensustag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67542010-03-16T01:51:43+00:002010-03-16T01:24:58+00:00Godfrey HodgsonAn inspiring candidate has become a failing president. But a comparison with Lyndon B Johnson shows that the reasons for this outcome are more than personal. Read more...]]>The English Marriagetag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67652010-03-16T00:25:54+00:002010-03-17T12:40:55+00:00Francis PhillipsA spirited
gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.
Read more...]]>Never waste a good crisistag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67642010-03-15T14:52:54+00:002010-03-17T11:06:55+00:00Peter ZiehanThe economic woes of Greece and other spendthrift countries have given Germany greater power in the EU.
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sign of a clash between the Christian and Muslim worlds.
Read more...]]>Facing up to grown-up responsibilitiestag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67422010-03-13T05:35:51+00:002010-03-13T05:45:13+00:00Alex PerrottetFacebook has 400 million
users. How responsible is it for the behaviour of its growing number of vandals
and thugs?
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Read more...]]>Riled by the R-wordtag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67412010-03-11T02:38:08+00:002010-03-13T01:45:09+00:00Barbara KayDisabled people need all the support we can give them. They don't need ideologues who teach that disability is a social construct. Read more...]]>Flat tires, diapers and school reformtag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67362010-03-10T04:44:14+00:002010-03-10T04:00:04+00:00Kevin RyanAre
federally mandated accountability and school choice going to join other
attempts to change US schools in the junkyard of great ideas?
Read more...]]>Swiss animals are in the catbird seat. How about the kids?tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67312010-03-09T04:58:04+00:002010-03-10T03:13:38+00:00Clara Balestra Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to give
animals a public defender. But children are still not adequately protected.
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Read more...]]>Assessing JFK’s legacy to American Christianstag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67202010-03-08T00:18:48+00:002010-03-08T00:00:55+00:00Charles J. ChaputFifty years ago, John F. Kennedy gave an important speech about the role of Christians in public life. A Catholic Archbishop says that the damage he did was profound.
Read more...]]>Why my 50,000 videogames are the art form of the futuretag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67052010-03-04T22:50:40+00:002010-03-04T22:07:44+00:00Paco RuizFar from endangering the soul, immersion in the world of avatars can give us a glimpse of lost innocence.
Read more...]]>After the quake, Chile shows its strengthstag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.67082010-03-04T20:45:23+00:002010-03-05T00:48:24+00:00Pedro DutourIn Latin American terms, it couldn't have happened to a better country.
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Read more...]]>Daring scheme for raising Korean birthstag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66962010-03-03T18:18:04+00:002010-03-04T22:41:05+00:00Anna ChoiUnless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion.
Read more...]]>Too much, too soontag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66852010-03-02T17:53:47+00:002010-03-03T04:53:48+00:00Joanna BogleAs possibly one of its last acts as government, British Labour bids to make sex education compulsory.
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Read more...]]>Getting the facts right about euthanasiatag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66912010-03-02T07:49:27+00:002010-03-02T23:48:28+00:00Margaret SomervilleHow can Quebec doctors ask for the legalisation of euthanasia? They don't even know what it is.
Read more...]]>Wisdom from your local zootag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66802010-02-28T23:44:35+00:002010-03-01T04:22:46+00:00Denyse O'LearyUpdating Dear Abby and Ann Landers, a British newspaper has engaged an evolutionary agony aunt.
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Read more...]]>The future church - possiblytag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66692010-02-26T02:32:40+00:002010-02-27T14:57:41+00:00Martin BarillasAn American journalist exercises his prophetic powers concerning trends in the Catholic Church.
Read more...]]>The stamp of intolerance: atheists v Mother Teresatag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66722010-02-26T01:14:59+00:002010-02-26T18:50:00+00:00Colleen Carroll CampbellA silly campaign also demonstrates the inroads of anti-religious sentiment into American society.
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Read more...]]>The disappearing disabledtag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.66682010-02-24T23:21:12+00:002010-02-25T12:00:22+00:00Mark MostertDread genetic diseases are disappearing -- because parents and doctors are eliminating the children who have them.
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An inspiring candidate has become a failing president. But a comparison with Lyndon B Johnson shows that the reasons for this outcome are more than personal.
A spirited
gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.
Read more...]]>
The economic woes of Greece and other spendthrift countries have given Germany greater power in the EU.
Read more...]]>
Terrifying massacres in Nigeria are not a
sign of a clash between the Christian and Muslim worlds.
Read more...]]>
Facebook has 400 million
users. How responsible is it for the behaviour of its growing number of vandals
and thugs?
Read more...]]>
How a law student used Facebook to educate her friends about abortion.
Read more...]]>
Full body scanners take away privacy, modesty and dignity. Do we have blind faith in technology?
Read more...]]>
Disabled people need all the support we can give them. They don't need ideologues who teach that disability is a social construct. 
Are
federally mandated accountability and school choice going to join other
attempts to change US schools in the junkyard of great ideas?
Read more...]]>
Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to give
animals a public defender. But children are still not adequately protected.
Read more...]]>
In the information age a new generation of women awaits formation in the feminine powers of attention to the other and care for them. The third and last part of a symposium on improving the status of women by 2020.
Read more...]]>
Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy gave an important speech about the role of Christians in public life. A Catholic Archbishop says that the damage he did was profound.
Read more...]]>
Far from endangering the soul, immersion in the world of avatars can give us a glimpse of lost innocence.
Read more...]]>
In Latin American terms, it couldn't have happened to a better country.
Read more...]]>
Putting a stop to sexual objectification, exploring intrinsic feminine gifts - these and other ideas are on the agenda in Part 2 of a symposium on improving the status of women by 2020.
Read more...]]>
Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion.
Read more...]]>
As possibly one of its last acts as government, British Labour bids to make sex education compulsory.
Read more...]]>
Tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, what other realistic options does the US have?
Read more...]]>
How can Quebec doctors ask for the legalisation of euthanasia? They don't even know what it is.
Read more...]]>
Updating Dear Abby and Ann Landers, a British newspaper has engaged an evolutionary agony aunt.
Read more...]]>
Self-sacrifice may be good for the soul but should it be imposed upon us?
Read more...]]>
An American journalist exercises his prophetic powers concerning trends in the Catholic Church.
Read more...]]>
A silly campaign also demonstrates the inroads of anti-religious sentiment into American society.
Read more...]]>
Can we judge the status of a woman by her paypacket? Have women arrived when they have half the seats in the legislature and their husbands do half the chores at home? Part I of a symposium on improving the status of women by 2020.
Read more...]]>
Dread genetic diseases are disappearing -- because parents and doctors are eliminating the children who have them.
Read more...]]>