The intellectual catwalk

Michael Kirke | 12 May 2008

The world's top public intellectuals are on the campaign trail again. It's time to cast a vote. 

The Philippines’ ethical time bomb

Dean Menchavez | 09 May 2008 | comment 8

Filipinos have narrowly escaped the establishment of a legal market for organs. But will the new system work?

Preaching from the bully pulpit

Theron Bowers | 09 May 2008 | comment 9

More laws and more feel-good programs are not the way to end school bullying.

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 6

The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.

Counter-cultural motherhood

Kate Bluett | 07 May 2008 | comment 2

Mother's Day arrives again with its uncertainties, pressures and a declaration of faith.

The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 May 2008 | comment 25

The crimes of Josef Fritzl cannot be explained within our normal secularist assumptions about the world.

Treat your goldfish well – or else!

Michael Cook | 02 May 2008 | comment 25

Depriving a goldfish of fishy companions has become a crime in Switzerland.

A tale of two sisters

Joanna Bogle | 02 May 2008 | comment 14

In the mad world of 21st century relationships the home of two sisters incurs a tax while that of ‘civil partners’ is exempt.

My secret life as a revolutionary

Michael Cook | 30 April 2008 | comment 4

A Harvard education in the glory days of the Revolution included practical lessons in the Struggle.

“Drive the cop out of your head”

Michael Shanks | 29 April 2008 | comment 4

Forty years ago rioting students filled Paris with revolutionary graffiti. Was it all just a bad dream? 

Pope Benedict at the UN: a moral grammar of rights

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 26 April 2008 | comment 6

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the pope offers an interpretive key.

Polygamy by any other name

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 April 2008 | comment 12

A religious sect is being prosecuted for under-age sex and marriage. A lot of other people should be feeling uncomfortable.

Australia’s marriage gap

Angela Shanahan | 25 April 2008 | comment 3

It is not middle-class women who are ending up on the shelf but their less educated sisters.

The Roman Triumph

Francis Phillips | 24 April 2008 | comment 2

The exciting true story of the processions of victorious generals and emperors. 

Expelled: conspiracy or claptrap?

Sonsoles de Lacalle | 18 April 2008 | comment 37

Ben Stein's documentary on Darwinism opens this weekend in the US. It does no credit to the cause of religion or even of intelligent design, says an American scientist.

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