A few years ago Australian Aboriginal communities were asked what they thought of euthanasia. Their response was thoughtful, deep and negative.
Since Vatican II, Christians and Jews have done much to heal their tormented relationship. The problem is, says Jewish scholar David Novak in this MercatorNet interview, not enough of us know about it.
Famine has returned to Eastern Africa and the government of Kenya is ill-prepared. How is it that a country which fed its people during a worse famine more than 20 years ago is now caught off guard?
A slayer of myths and delusions about totalitarian regimes returns to the fray. Robert Conquest writes in defence of the 'Anglosphere'.
Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?
Despite its trademark nihilism, Woody Allen’s latest film ends up showing that there is order in the universe.
Euthanasia is back in the news. And no one is more qualified to lead the movement into the 21st century than Philip Nitschke.
Canada’s chief justice reckons morals are “subjective, arbitrary and unworkable”. Hmm. It’s an interesting principle for drafting laws.
Thousands of western women each year are exchanging hedonism for the headscarf and fasting at Ramadan. Does Islam have something to offer women that Christianity does not?
Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.
The trial of German doctors who used prisoners for ghastly experiments during World War II is still relevant today.
The bitter debate over whether private religious beliefs should influence what policies politicians support has become an issue in this month’s election in Canada.
A government's legitimate need to interrogate terror suspects must not be allowed to slide into inhumane torture, argues Marc Zarrouati in this MercatorNet interview.
This quirky best-seller about the economics of everyday life is high on entertainment value and low on content — with one controversial exception.
Since our launch last May, MercatorNet has published an amazing range of reading. Here are a dozen of our readers' favourites in 2005.
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