entertainment and education Digital multitasking: scourge or blessing?Anya Kamenetz | 22 May 2013 |tags: education, multitasking, social mediaHow can we teach students to focus on what they ought to be doing?  Star Trek: Into DarknessRonan Wright | 20 May 2013 |tags: film reviewsThe familiar characters face very contemporary issues of terrorism and militarism in this nicely characterised film.  What is parenthood?Peter Jon Mitchell | 15 May 2013 |tags: book reviews, family policy, parenting, same-sex parentingIn debates about the family, some social scientists are asserting the primacy of theory over facts. Is this science?  What do the children say?Robert Oscar Lopez | 12 May 2013 |tags: same-sex marriage, same-sex parentingThe children of same-sex couples normally love the people who raised them. But many of them still have reservations about same-sex marriage.  The value of a liberal-arts educationJill Tiefenthaler | 09 May 2013 |tags: education, liberal artsColleges must prepare young people to think with rigour and creativity rather than just train them for a job.  A HijackingRonan Wright | 22 April 2013 |tags: film reviews, kidnapping, piracyThis extraordinary Danish film about a merchant ship taken by Somali pirates is a masterpiece of tension and characterisation.  White ElephantRonan Wright | 16 April 2013 |tags: Argentina, film reviewsA gut-wrenching Argentinian drama about life in the sprawling slums of Buenos Aires gives English-speaking viewers an insight into the background of the new Pope.  The West’s two big mistakes in the Arab worldJennifer S. Bryson | 08 April 2013 |tags: Arab Spring, book reviews, IslamBy treating Islam as monolithic and insisting on secularisation Western powers miss opportunities to help democracy take root.  Former PeopleFrancis Phillips | 02 April 2013 |tags: book reviews, revolution, Russia"Losers are no less worthy of being remembered than winners," writes a chronicler of the last days of the Russian aristocracy.  Mea Maxima Culpa: an exposé of an exposéSean Murphy | 02 April 2013 |tags: film reviews, media ethics, sexual abuseThe scandal of an abusive priest in Wisconsin was ghastly enough. But a powerful documentary misrepresents how the Catholic Church dealt with it.  The truth of the Magdalene Laundries emergesRonan Wright | 02 April 2013 |tags: abuse crisis, film reviews, IrelandA report by the Irish government fails to back widely-accepted allegations of abuse by Catholic nuns.  A divine foot in the doorDavid Gallagher | 22 March 2013 |tags: book reviews, Darwinism, materialismAtheist philosopher Thomas Nagel explains why the materialist Neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false.  Oz the Great and PowerfulLaura Cotta Ramosino | 22 March 2013 |tags: film reviewsThe 3D techniques are beautiful but the plot quite predictable in this prequel to the original Wizard of Oz.  Get out your stripey socksMary O'Neill Le Rumeur | 20 March 2013 |tags: bioethics, Down syndrome... and celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. It's time to explode the myths and fears that surround this condition.  Anna KareninaLaura Cotta Ramosino | 04 March 2013 |tags: film reviews, TolstoyThe latest screen adaptation of Tolstoy's famous novel fails to portray the original's emotional complexity.  The 2013 OscarsBrendan Malone | 27 February 2013 |tags: Academy Awards, OscarsThey got the best picture right and the best actor right. How did they ever choose the best foreign film?  What money can’t buyMichael Cook | 26 February 2013 |tags: book reviews, commodification, market economy, utilitarianismWhat is the proper role of money and markets in a democratic society? How can we protect the priceless goods in moral and civic life from being bought and sold?  Books for fun and inspiration…Carolyn Moynihan , Clare Cannon and Michael Cook | 26 February 2013 |tags: book lists, cheerfulness… and an antidote for the over-cheerful. All good literature, though.  “Wadjda” - a breakthrough for Saudi womenMary O'Neill Le Rumeur | 26 February 2013 |tags: film reviews, Saudi ArabiaThe first feature movie made in Saudi Arabia breaks new ground in other ways also.  A Good Day to Die HardRaffaele Chiarulli | 20 February 2013 |tags: film reviewsEntertaining for action movie lovers, but not a patch on the early films of the Die Hard franchise.  The joys of WeltschmerzMichael Cook | 19 February 2013 |tags: films, melancholy, WeltschmerzFeeling too happy? Need something to remind you that life is a serious business? Here are our suggestions.  The least of theseAnthony Esolen | 19 February 2013 |tags: Boy Scouts, childhood, homosexualityOur government has failed to admit that its own selfishness is the root of many societal problems it has tried to address. Page 1 of 1 : subscribe donate
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