influencing public opinion

An elephant in the press room

Tracey S. O'Donnell | 16 December 2011 |

tags: abortion-mental health link, media neglect

Why did leading media fail to point out the real news in a report on abortion and mental health?

Gleeful subversion

David Quinn | 23 November 2011 |

tags: sexual behaviour, teenagers, television

The view of teen sex in the popular American TV show is painfully unrealistic.

Which part of “totally transparent” don’t you understand?

Donna Laframboise | 15 November 2011 |

tags: climate change, IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is cited as the world authority on climate change. But, amazingly, many of the authors of its definitive report are mere graduate students.

And yet, it moves

George Pell | 01 November 2011 |

tags: climate change, consensus

A Catholic prelate finds himself in the party of Galileo and against the consensus of true believers on climate change.

Nobel Prizes mean more for media than for science

Peter C. Doherty | 04 October 2011 |

tags: media frenzy, Nobel Prize, science

Once again, it's Nobel Prize season. An Australian laureate remembers the day the phone rang.

Heroes and hackers

David Alton | 28 September 2011 |

tags: heroes, media, truth

The phone-hacking scandal obscures the heroism journalists can display in pursuit of the truth.

A naturally conservative nation

Thomas C. Reeves | 26 August 2011 |

tags: conservatism, liberalism, secularism

In a recent Gallup poll, only 21 per cent of Americans called themselves liberals.

Madrid, capital of youth

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 August 2011 |

tags: Spain, World Youth Day

Don’t tell the BBC, but there’s over a million young Catholics in Madrid right now having a good time with the Pope.

Baby shock! Celebrity couple snub population police

Colleen Carroll Campbell | 15 August 2011 |

tags: birth dearth, celebrities, population aging

Are David and Victoria Beckham bad role models for bringing a fourth child into the world?

It Gets Better - the youth campaign that makes everything worse

Mary Rice Hasson | 29 July 2011 |

tags: family, homosexuality, youth

How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?

We need a new framework for news

Natalie Fenton | 12 July 2011 |

tags: journalism, media ethics, News of the World

The phone-hacking scandal is an opportunity to re-evaluate journalistic ethics to help the media support democracy.

Ethical leadership

Clemens Sedmak | 08 July 2011 |

tags: leadership

A good leader has an idea of goodness and respective goals and is willing to hold on to these goals even in difficult times.

Conversation, an elusive ideal

John Armstrong | 30 June 2011 |

tags: art, civility, conversation

An invitation to a big, sustained conversation about art.

A mean age for youthful sex

Carolyn Moynihan | 24 June 2011 |

tags: adolescence, HIVAIDS, sex education, sexual behaviour

What exactly do the studies mean when they report an average age for sexual initiation?

I feel, therefore I buy

Adela lo Celso and Efrat Tseëlon | 15 June 2011 |

tags: business ethics, fashion, marketing

Neuroscience has put the last nail in the coffin of the rational consumer.

A talk in Tehran

Peter Baehr | 10 June 2011 |

tags: conscience, freedom, Iran

Academic conferences can be opportunities for spreading the gospel of freedom of conscience.

Message to US State Dept: evil is evil is evil

Robert R. Reilly | 06 June 2011 |

tags: diplomacy, Islam. Barack Obama, US

How do you fashion a public diplomacy strategy if you do not believe that America stands for true human dignity?

I plank, therefore I am

Zac Alstin | 25 May 2011 |

tags: crazes, Facebook, planking

A philosopher reflects on the craze for “planking” in the strangest places.

Crazy for Osama

Zac Alstin | 03 May 2011 |

tags: media, Osama bin Laden, war on terror

Take 1: You've got to have rocks in your head not to rejoice in the death of an unrepentant mass murderer.

The Net Delusion

John Lloyd | 02 April 2011 |

tags: democracy, internet

Oppressive regimes are now the expert manipulators of Web 2.0, argues an internet guru. Does his argument stand up after the Arab Revolution?

Beyond dispute?

Michael Cook | 19 January 2011 |

tags: homosexuality, same-sex marriage

A prominent American civil rights group claims that pro-family organisations are promoting anti-gay hatred.

The imperial precedent for Wikileaks

James Renton | 28 December 2010 |

tags: Wikileaks

The 1918 equivalent of Wikileaks was the disclosure of a British plan to carve up the Middle East between England and France.

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