An 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. 2010-02-09T16:00:36+10:00 Copyright (c) 2009, MercatorNet tag:mercatornet.com,2009:08:13 tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6571 2010-02-09T07:00:36+00:00 2010-02-09T06:09:33+00:00 Vincenzina Santoro What right has Bill Gates to dress down Italy and its prime minister? Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6573 2010-02-09T06:37:38+00:00 2010-02-09T11:01:40+00:00 Marko Papic and Peter Zeihan In the not too distant future, Greece will probably default on its national debt. How will the EU's most powerful economy react? Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6572 2010-02-09T06:32:01+00:00 2010-02-09T06:09:02+00:00 Carson Holloway Why the concept of “strict scrutiny” is alien to the Constitution and why it poses a threat to a constitutionally defensible judicial review. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6551 2010-02-06T00:37:30+00:00 2010-02-05T23:58:11+00:00 Sheila Liaugminas Controversy over an ad for the big event makes you wonder what some folks mean by 'choice'. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6550 2010-02-06T00:14:10+00:00 2010-02-06T00:40:11+00:00 Angela Shanahan In an opening article on this issue an Australian journalist says veils are a security risk in the West and should be banned in public. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6541 2010-02-05T08:32:38+00:00 2010-02-05T23:29:39+00:00 Pia de Solenni If you count adolescents old enough to vote and enlist, sure the pregnancy rate went up. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6540 2010-02-05T03:49:52+00:00 2010-02-05T07:49:53+00:00 Tony Curzon Price The film depresses by placing hope in a blind life force, not in human agency. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6537 2010-02-04T23:31:59+00:00 2010-02-05T03:07:00+00:00 Bill Muehlenberg The Australian state of Victoria has appointed a Minister for Respect. He might as well sing for it. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6529 2010-02-03T03:18:57+00:00 2010-02-05T00:32:58+00:00 Vincenzina Santoro The next big population bogeyman could well be 'overcrowding'. Should we worry? Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6528 2010-02-03T02:26:30+00:00 2010-02-03T08:19:31+00:00 Marcus Gilroy-Ware The iPad could have played a major part in the shift towards a more democratised, read-write culture. But it hasn’t happened: why not? Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6519 2010-02-02T04:25:45+00:00 2010-02-03T01:53:46+00:00 Barbara Kay A quest for authenticity that turned prolonged immaturity into an ideal. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6510 2010-02-01T02:40:28+00:00 2010-02-02T03:50:29+00:00 Brian Lilley The G8 appears set to take on the issues of child and maternal mortality. Can they do it while saving lives, not destroying them? Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6499 2010-01-29T22:44:45+00:00 2010-01-29T23:09:09+00:00 John Robson Obama's speech offered soaring oratory that fell flat and fizzled. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6497 2010-01-29T05:18:26+00:00 2010-01-29T05:35:15+00:00 Carolyn Moynihan Horrors! The next prime minister of Australia might be a man who advocates virginity for young people. Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6494 2010-01-29T01:31:05+00:00 2010-01-29T05:25:06+00:00 Francis Phillips India may have the best of modern technology and a powerful economy, but it is deeply religious.  Read more...]]> tag:mercatornet.com,2010:articles/4.6490 2010-01-28T08:30:08+00:00 2010-01-28T08:02:33+00:00 Joanna Bogle Uneasy about social disintegration, Britons have yet to face the underlying causes.
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