true democracy


A case for bureaucratic clawback

Denyse O'Leary | 01 February 2013 |
tags: animal welfare, justice, subsidiarity
When a fight over a cat goes to federal court it is time to call on a Catholic principle.


Pro-lifers taking a new direction

William West | 15 January 2013 |
tags: abortion, human dignity, human rights, prisons, pro-life
Prison reform is human dignity issue that needs to be addressed urgently.


Will Egypt become a totalitarian state?

Robert R. Reilly | 26 December 2012 |
tags: Egypt, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood wants to control all aspects of the state and personal life after consolidating its power.


The marriage gap in the women’s vote

Meg T. McDonnell | 03 December 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, marriage gap, women vote
President Obama won 65 percent of the single women's vote by promising to look after them.


The coming social Frankenstorm

Carolyn Moynihan | 08 November 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, Barack Obama, same-sex marriage
There is a storm brewing that the election results can only fuel.


Should 16-year-olds be able to vote?

Shawn Murphy | 02 November 2012 |
tags: democracy, franchise, Scotland, teenagers
Scotland's 16 and 17-year-olds will be casting their votes in a referendum on independence. Why not elsewhere?


The audacity of pose

Alma Acevedo | 31 October 2012 |
tags: Barack Obama, election 2012, rhetoric
Soaring words are for the birds. You campaign with poetry, but you govern with prose.


Is Hurricane Sandy the “October surprise” we’ve been waiting for?

Ed Blakely | 31 October 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, Hurricane Sandy
The massive storm is more than just a weather event. It could decide the election.


Where are the “deep divisions”?

George Friedman | 31 October 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, voter enthusiasm
Since 1820, American presidential elections have almost always been extremely close.


Entitlement America - a nation of takers?

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 October 2012 |
tags: independence, intergenerational equity, welfare state
The ballooning of the welfare state is corrupting the American character as well as burdening generations to come, argues a scholar.


Where an exhausted society can flourish again

Yuval Levin | 26 October 2012 |
tags: civil society, United States, welfare state
Between the government and the individual is a vital space which both conservatives and liberals are neglecting.


Who won? Does it really matter?

George Friedman | 24 October 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, Stratfor, vilification
What debates show is how candidates perform under pressure. What they actually say matters much less.


Dr Capable or Mr Charm?

Alma Acevedo | 23 October 2012 |
tags: 2012 elections, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
Should we like politicians who send the charm meter off the scale, or those who have decency and good judgment?


Will Salafism blight the Arab Spring?

Kamran Bokhari | 04 October 2012 |
tags: Arab Spring, democracy, Islam, Salafism
An austere and aloof movement within Islam could derail democratic gains.


“Above all…to thine own self be true”?

Anthony Esolen | 01 October 2012 |
tags: indoctrination, philosophy, subjectivism
Australia's Girl Guides have adopted the motto of a "wretched, rash intruding fool".


Free speech in America, death in Nigeria

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 28 September 2012 |
tags: Africa, free speech, Muslims, social media
It is time to stop defending inflammatory spite under the banner of free speech.


A life unworthy to be discussed?

Margaret Somerville | 28 August 2012 |
tags: abortion, Canada, justice
Canada has no law governing abortion, and pro-choice forces oppose even debating one.


Free speech under siege

Colleen Carroll Campbell | 04 August 2012 |
tags: freedom of speech, same-sex marriage
Today's gay-marriage movement seems far more eager to silence its critics than debate them.


Should we boycott the moral opposition?

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 August 2012 |
tags: boycott, same-sex marriage
The experience of a fast-food chain in the United States this week suggests not.


A second look at Chariots of Fire

Susan Hanssen | 31 July 2012 |
tags: films, Olympics, religious freedom, secularism
The film's Olympic heroes face a common enemy: the bland pseudo-tolerance of secular humanism.


Yes, Boris, it’s you

Joanna Bogle | 31 July 2012 |
tags: Britain, Olympics, politics
If these the times, then this must be the man, what?


Behind Colorado’s Dark Knight massacre

Michael Cook | 24 July 2012 |
tags: individualism, massacres, tragedies
Why do well-educated men in a prosperous, progressive, democratic society still go on murderous rampages?


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