true democracy A case for bureaucratic clawbackDenyse O'Leary | 01 February 2013 |tags: animal welfare, justice, subsidiarityWhen a fight over a cat goes to federal court it is time to call on a Catholic principle.  Pro-lifers taking a new directionWilliam West | 15 January 2013 |tags: abortion, human dignity, human rights, prisons, pro-lifePrison 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 BrotherhoodThe Muslim Brotherhood wants to control all aspects of the state and personal life after consolidating its power.  The marriage gap in the women’s voteMeg T. McDonnell | 03 December 2012 |tags: 2012 elections, marriage gap, women votePresident Obama won 65 percent of the single women's vote by promising to look after them.  The coming social FrankenstormCarolyn Moynihan | 08 November 2012 |tags: 2012 elections, Barack Obama, same-sex marriageThere 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, teenagersScotland's 16 and 17-year-olds will be casting their votes in a referendum on independence. Why not elsewhere?  The audacity of poseAlma Acevedo | 31 October 2012 |tags: Barack Obama, election 2012, rhetoricSoaring 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 SandyThe 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 enthusiasmSince 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 stateThe 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 againYuval Levin | 26 October 2012 |tags: civil society, United States, welfare stateBetween 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, vilificationWhat 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 RomneyShould 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, SalafismAn 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, subjectivismAustralia's Girl Guides have adopted the motto of a "wretched, rash intruding fool".  Free speech in America, death in NigeriaNwachukwu Egbunike | 28 September 2012 |tags: Africa, free speech, Muslims, social mediaIt 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, justiceCanada has no law governing abortion, and pro-choice forces oppose even debating one.  Free speech under siegeColleen Carroll Campbell | 04 August 2012 |tags: freedom of speech, same-sex marriageToday'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 marriageThe experience of a fast-food chain in the United States this week suggests not.  A second look at Chariots of FireSusan Hanssen | 31 July 2012 |tags: films, Olympics, religious freedom, secularismThe film's Olympic heroes face a common enemy: the bland pseudo-tolerance of secular humanism.  Yes, Boris, it’s youJoanna Bogle | 31 July 2012 |tags: Britain, Olympics, politicsIf these the times, then this must be the man, what?  Behind Colorado’s Dark Knight massacreMichael Cook | 24 July 2012 |tags: individualism, massacres, tragediesWhy do well-educated men in a prosperous, progressive, democratic society still go on murderous rampages? Page 1 of 1 : subscribe donate
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