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

What are all those trophies really worth?

WSJ.com | 17 November 2005

In an era when even the most hopeless child is given a prize for not actually maiming his classmates, what scrumptious prizes do the rest of us deserve?

Betrayal as a literary genre

In Character | 14 November 2005

How White House staffers proclaim undying loyalty while they bucket their former bosses.

Another unsung heroine

London Telegraph | 14 November 2005

A young mother gives birth after becoming a quadriplegic.

White House Ethics 101

New York Times | 11 November 2005

The Bush Administration is putting all staff through a compulsory ethics course. Let's listen in.

You can be a beast, but I’m human

London Times | 10 November 2005

A British philosopher rolls up his sleeves to demolish 20th Century anti-humanism.

My disabled daughter deserves better

Spectator | 27 October 2005

And the new favourite for the Tory leadership in the UK understands why.

25 years of narcissism

Policy Review | 25 October 2005

A generation reared on a diet of self-esteem is having its own children and hot-housing them. What will be the results?

Whimsy, pure whimsy

First Things | 25 October 2005

An appreciation of a master of English prose, P.G. Wodehouse.

The Down side of pre-natal testing

Washington Post | 19 October 2005

A former Washington Post journalist asks why her friends are so scared of children with disabilities.

Justice comes to Cambodia

Dissent | 19 October 2005

A tormented country comes to terms with its past.

Maggie Thatcher at 80

London Telegraph | 14 October 2005

Nothing terrifies her more than idleness.

Who is better, the Mayans or the Greeks?

Roger Sandall | 12 October 2005

Barbarism with pyramids or the examined life?

The complete Calvin and Hobbes now on sale

Washington Post | 12 October 2005

... ten years after its author downed tools forever.

At least Turks don’t like euthanasia

Irish Examiner | 10 October 2005

What superior values can modern Europe flaunt to deny Turkey a place in the EU?

Are computers good for kids?

Orion | 10 October 2005

Children who use computers frequently often perform worse academically.

Fickle penguin dents gay pride

Dr. Throckmorton.com | 03 October 2005

A warning against taking your anthropolgy from animals.

Indian tribe (in India) confirmed as lost tribe of Israel

London Telegraph | 30 September 2005

Despite scepticism, some are moving to Israel.

Politicising academe

Wall Street Journal | 30 September 2005

What ever happened to the grandees who used to head American universities?

Biblical illiteracy is a shame

Wall Street Journal | 30 September 2005

Loss of familiarity with the Bible is cultural impoverishment.

The Dutch don’t tell lawyer jokes

TLS | 30 September 2005

But Americans do and - this is not a joke - an academic has written a 430-page book explaining them.

The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies

City Journal | 30 September 2005

Four decades after the Moynihan report, perhaps the penny has dropped.

Capitalism vs democracy

Washington Post | 30 September 2005

The US, Germany and Japan share a problem: how to reconcile the democratic process with market efficiency.

Let’s revitalise marriage

In Character | 30 September 2005

Cohabitation is not to marriage what spring training is to baseball

Stem cells without guilt

Washington Times | 26 September 2005

New ways exist to obtain embryonic stem cells. Why don't we use them?

Evil makes a comeback

Quadrant | 21 September 2005

The concept of evil is being rehabilitated to explain the inexplicable.

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