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Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship

Chronicle of Higher Education | 01 July 2009

Harder to kill than your average vampire, says Christina Hoff Sommers.

Who, apart from the Prince of Wales, ever speaks up for beauty?

London Telegraph | 01 July 2009

I'm not a royal toady, but...

Hypocrisy and Public Life

Public Discourse | 01 July 2009

“Hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue.” Discuss, with examples.

Think Again: Asia’s Rise

Foriegn Policy | 01 July 2009

Don't believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age.

It would be wrong to sneer at this outpouring of public grief

London Telegraph | 30 June 2009

Michael Jackson took on the martyr's mantle once worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, says Boris Johnson.

Athenians and Visigoths

First Things | 29 June 2009

Neil Postman's graduation speech.

Death in birth

New York Times | 27 June 2009

Fragile Tanzanian Orphans Get Help After Mothers Die.

Giving the green light to suicide

Spiked | 26 June 2009

Revelations that non-terminally ill people were euthanised in Switzerland calls into question the ‘right to die’ campaign.

Obama’s Favorite Theologian?

Pew Forum | 26 June 2009

A short course on Reinhold Niebuhr.

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand

Atlantic | 24 June 2009

Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade

Modern Slavery Comes to Kansas

Wall Street Journal | 24 June 2009

Workers who were exploited abroad tend to be exploited here.

What the temptations on the high mountain mean today

Spectator | 24 June 2009

Paul Johnson on moral relativism.

Is the abortion debate over?

Public Discourse | 24 June 2009

The philosophical debate about abortion has reached a welcome level of clarity.

“We Need Fathers To Step Up”

Parade | 23 June 2009

President Barack Obama on his most important responsibility.

Five Myths on Fathers and Family

National Review | 21 June 2009

Be on the lookout this week for stories with these bogus memes.

Those Medieval Monks Could Draw

New York Times | 20 June 2009

The bodies that interested them most were heavenly. But, as this exhibition demonstrates, realism was not beyond their reach.

Beauty and Desecration

City Journal | 20 June 2009

We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness.

Whither Central Banking?

Public Discourse | 20 June 2009

At a moment of increased government involvement in the economy, the solution we need might be a more independent central bank.

The underworked American

The Economist | 20 June 2009

Children are exceptions to the country’s work ethic.

Reason vs. Faith: the Battle Continues

Chronicle of Higher Education | 20 June 2009

A narrow Darwinian view will never be able to account for religion's indispensable role in forming higher ideals.

Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis

knowledge@wharton | 17 June 2009

Of all the experts, weren't they the best equipped to see around the corners?

The Great Unwinding

New York Times | 17 June 2009

A generation of splurging must be followed by a generation of saving. There will be pain.

What to Do About Darfur

New York Review of Books | 17 June 2009

Why has the "Save Darfur" movement run out of steam, even though the killing continues?

Higher Education and the Political Regime

Public Discourse | 17 June 2009

All education is moral education, because it carries an understanding of the things worth knowing.

Thanks a bunch, you baby boomers

Financial Times | 17 June 2009

Gen X is essentially little more than glorified pooper-scoopers

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