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After hours and hours of exhausting surfing, we have found these useful links for MercatorNet readers.

Forgiveness

London Telegraph | 12 May 2008

The mother of a murdered teenager feels only sympathy for the parents of the killers.

‘The wickedness of man was great in the earth’

Spiked | 12 May 2008

Everyone seems to believe in the Middle Ages idea that floods are punishment for mankind’s hubris.

A Crime So Monstrous

First Things | 11 May 2008

You can buy a 12-year-old slave in Haiti for $50.

Ivy Leaguers are bright – but nice?

Christian Science Monitor | 10 May 2008

These are the people who rise to the top, partly on the backs of nicer people.

Solving Asia’s Food Crisis

Wall Street Journal | 10 May 2008

The era of cheap food is over, says the head of the Asian Development Bank.

‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’

Atlantic Monthly | 09 May 2008

Bill Cosby's crusade to give dignity to black men.

I didn’t have a 49-year fight for control to be a partner

Australian | 09 May 2008

For the first time in 49 years as a married-once person I had been described to my face as my wife's "partner".

The Twilight of Supremacy

Wall Street Journal | 09 May 2008

What will the post-American world look like? American.

Working ‘makes us happy’

This Is London | 09 May 2008

Being unemployed could be as dangerous as smoking 400 cigarettes a day.

If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?

New York Magazine | 08 May 2008

Some atheists think that they need a church.

Demography Is King

New York Times | 06 May 2008

There are profound social gulfs within the two American parties.

Biofuels can’t feed starving people

Christian Science Monitor | 06 May 2008

Using crops for energy is a noble idea, but it has led to a hunger crisis.

AIDS and the Churches

First Thngs | 06 May 2008

Getting the story right.

The Gospel of Consumption

Orion | 05 May 2008

The forgotten campaign for a 30-hour week. 

Humane alternatives to feminism

Jennifer Roback Morse.com | 23 April 2008

Women have been poorly served by the way work-life balance has been framed.

How will we feed the world?

London Telegraph | 23 April 2008

A good summary of the current crisis.

Talk might be cheap, but a great speech is divine.

Sydney Morning Herald | 21 April 2008

Will Obama's oratorical skills make him a good president?

Don’t Doubt It

National Review Online | 21 April 2008

Get ready for the great Darwin-Hitler debate.

Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All

New York Times | 18 April 2008

The debate goes on.

Two Speeches on Race

New York Review of Books | 17 April 2008

Gary Wills compares Lincoln and Obama.

Downunder dilemmas

RogerSandall.com | 17 April 2008

Intellectuals, indigenes, and denial

What Have We Learned, If Anything?

New York Review of Books | 16 April 2008

America's memories of war in the 20th century are different from everyone else's memories. 

The Little Man Who Started These Great Wars

New York Sun | 16 April 2008

Napoleon never ceases to fascinate.

The girl in the tower

New York Review of Books | 15 April 2008

A fascinating look at the Rapunzel fairy tale. 

America’s Worst Mom?

New York Sun | 15 April 2008

Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone

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