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

Sarah Palin: Feminists’ worst nightmare

National Post | 05 September 2008

If convention speech-making were an Olympic sport, she would have walked away with a gold medal, says Barbara Kay.

Vietnam and religious freedom

Wall Street Journal Asia | 04 September 2008

A country of particular concern.

Stopes gets stamp of approval

Telegraph (UK) | 03 September 2008

Britain celebrates the 'family planning' legacy of a Hitler admirer and eugenicist.

The authorities have lied, and I am not glad

Spiked | 02 September 2008

A shame that AIDS insiders did not expose the myths and opportunism of the AIDS industry earlier. But still, better late than never.

Anti-Christian violence in India

Chiesa | 01 September 2008

The dark side of Indian culture.

Felonious Mayhem at Enron

Harvard Magazine | 31 August 2008

“I’ve thought about this a lot, and all that matters is money. You buy loyalty with money. This touchy-feely stuff isn’t as important as cash.”

A Speech to the Delegates

New York Times | 30 August 2008

An all-purpose political address about passing the torch to a new generation of Americans.

McCain unveils a secret weapon for culture wars

National Post | 30 August 2008

Sarah Palin is something genuinely new.

Russian bombs, Georgian fragments

London Times | 29 August 2008

Three unrelated indigenous groups, 40 mutually unintelligible languages, frequent invasions, pillaging, sacking and looting. Welcome to the Caucasus.

That turbulent priest

Pew Forum | 29 August 2008

Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput refuses to be silent in the 2008 election.

Childhood’s End

City Journal | 28 August 2008

Britain is the worst country in the Western world in which to be a child, according to a recent UNICEF report.

Why this prejudice against the semi-colon?

Boston Globe | 27 August 2008

Real men, goes the unwritten rule of American punctuation, don't use semi-colons.

Europe’s time bomb

Independent (UK) | 26 August 2008

Holland is the most densely populated major country in the world but there is rarely talk of too many Dutchmen.

The risks of abortion

Times Online | 25 August 2008

Even if the dangers to mental health are slight, how can anyone object to women being counselled about them?

Population games

New Matilda | 22 August 2008

Counting people to control the future leads to eugenics and coercion.

Pleas for living from the unborn

Herald Sun (Australia) | 20 August 2008

Our moral sympathy gland is rarely triggered by beings whose suffering or loss we cannot readily detect.

Professor, Do Your Job

Policy Review | 18 August 2008

The classroom is not your political platform.

5 books that change the way we think - for a while

London Times | 18 August 2008

The archaeology of bad ideas.

Why Safe Kids Are Becoming Fat Kids

Wall Street Journal | 17 August 2008

Risk is important in child development.

The internet shrinks your brain? What rubbish!

London Times | 17 August 2008

We should ignore the Jeremiahs who think the digital age is killing our ability to think.

Plight of the Little Emperors

Psychology Today | 16 August 2008

Coddled from infancy and raised to be academic machines, China's only children expect the world.

Hypocrisy, booze and the British

Financial Times | 16 August 2008

When told that my countrymen are essentially reserved, I ask: Have you ever seen the London tabloids?

He Blurbed, She Blurbed

New York Times | 16 August 2008

Can you believe what you read on the back of the book?

American declinism

Policy Review | 15 August 2008

Three centuries of gloomy forecasts about America.

Economics Does Not Lie

City Journal | 15 August 2008

The dismal science is at last a science—and the world is the beneficiary. A handy precis of the conventional wisdom. 

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