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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Scripting the new family

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What do liberals think about the family? I have recently read two commentaries on the changing family by liberal writers. Here is the start ...

A different mental world

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This is Dr Helen Szoke explaining why single women should have access to IVF: Two Victorian women are hoping for their first baby, but even...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

What causes family violence?

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In today's Herald Sun it's reported that: More than four out of five family violence cases also involve mental illness, financial ...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

So it's just self-interest?

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Spinoza was one of the first of the classical liberals. I'm reading a book about him at the moment titled The Courtier and the Heretic ...
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Missionaries attacked in Sydney

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Here's a news item which the American media has reported on but which the Australian media hasn't been willing to cover. Two young M...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Is Boris really a conservative?

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Boris Johnson was an editor of the 'conservative' Spectator magazine, then a 'conservative' MP, then a shadow minister on t...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Sweden - not merely odd

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The Lego toy company is in trouble in Sweden for breaching equality guidelines: Sweden’s Trade Ethical Council against Sexism in Advertisin...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Liberalism & lost community

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I've been gradually working my way through Liberalism & Community by American academic Steven Kautz. The book is an attempt to defe...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Greens have no country?

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I thought readers might be interested in a few posts from elsewhere. One is titled Sweden: The Triumph of Cultural Marxism . The Scandinavia...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Premier Brumby: children don't need fathers

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I won't often get the chance to praise Ted Baillieu, the Liberal Party leader here in Victoria. He is very much a liberal, rather than a...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Fatherless America

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I recently came across the book Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn. Published in 1995, it's too good to adequately discuss in a si...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Is human passion too dangerous?

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I've written a few posts now reviewing Liberalism & Community by American academic Steven Kautz. I hope readers will be patient wit...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Solitary, selfish, suspicious

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I've written a couple of posts already on the book Liberalism & Community by American academic Steven Kautz. The book was written...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Nationalism & the liberal mind

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There are many conservatives who don't understand the liberal attitude to nationalism. Why, ask such conservatives, would liberals want ...
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Collapsing nationalism

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Liberals aren't very good at preserving things, not even their own creations. Take the case of nationalism. Liberals have gone to a lot ...
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