Freedom is a no-brainer

Andrew Mullins | 23 October 2008 | comment 6

Modern science has made great strides in knowledge of the brain. But our brains are not us.

The Filipino front in the culture wars

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 21 October 2008 | comment 47

The heavyweights of the global reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines.

Permissive laws, permissive behaviour

Trayce Hansen | 21 October 2008 | comment 18

The research shows that legalising same-sex marriage will increase prevalence of homosexuality, says a psychologist

Towards World Economy 2.0

George Friedman and Peter Zeihan | 21 October 2008 | comment 1

Americans are sure to resist a European call to defer to an international economic bureaucracy in December's global summit. 

A victory for free speech that is no victory at all

Brian Lilley | 17 October 2008 | comment 3

Being cleared by a government body is no victory for journalists or citizens concerned with free speech

Real Education

Francis Phillips | 17 October 2008 | comment 2

A famous contrarian insists that children differ in ability and that their education should recognise this.

Respect for conscience must be a social value

Margaret Somerville | 17 October 2008 | comment 33

In mature Western democracies we have competing societal values, with abortion at the eye of the storm.

A crypto culture of life director?

Matthew Mehan | 17 October 2008 | comment 43

M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Happening was panned by critics who failed to grasp his insightful critique of the culture of death.

Forcing compliance

Michael Cook | 16 October 2008 | comment 11

The Australian state of Victoria has a world first: a law which forces doctors to refer women for abortion or to do it themselves -- even if they have a conscientious objection.

Doctors’ orders

Michael A. Fragoso | 15 October 2008 | comment 16

Attacks on conscientious objection are part of an international campaign to make abortion a basic human right.

From House to Home: Bringing work home

Charles Handy | 14 October 2008 | comment 3

Changes in the world of work can help reshape the home and make it an ideal school of life.

From House to Home: Family photos

Elizabeth Handy | 14 October 2008 | comment 1

A picture is worth a thousand words - in this case on the subject of what makes a house into a home.

States, economies and markets: redefining the rules

George Friedman | 14 October 2008 | comment 1

The finance ministers of the big economies have decided to make the pig fly. But there remains the small matter of how to build a flying pig.

Hunger for beauty

Alice Ramos | 14 October 2008 | comment 6

Enough of 'art for art's sake'. Let's have some art for the sake of humanity, truth and goodness.

Is capitalism dead or just flat-lining?

Alistair Nicholas | 11 October 2008 | comment 21

The world financial crisis shows that a system built on greed cannot work. 

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