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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hanna Rosin celebrates loveless youth

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Confused about the state of relationships? Well, if you're not now you will be after reading Hanna Rosin's latest piece , "Boys...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

An interesting Bible verse

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I don't often comment on scripture, but I thought this part of Paul's letter to the Philippians worth highlighting: Finally, breth...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Signorelli and Salingaros on modernist art

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From an article on modernist art by Mark Anthony Signorelli and Nikos A. Salingaros: [M]odern art embodies and manifests all the worst fe...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

How does an Oxford feminist decide moral issues?

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I've often said that feminism is liberalism applied to the lives of women. And at the heart of liberalism is autonomy theory: the belief...
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Catholic schools celebrate "A Proud Race"

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Australian Aborigines are not only allowed to be a race, they are allowed to be a proud race: Proud Race is the unique initiative from th...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Droving into the light

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The ideas behind art matter a great deal. For instance, here is a comment by the art reviewer for the Melbourne Age newspaper, Stephanie Ho...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

What does a Greens MP blame?

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Statistics just released by Victoria Police show that Somali and Sudanese-born Victorians are five times more likely than the general popul...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

A thought on welcome to country

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Overseas readers might not be aware of this but in Australia a custom has arisen in which at the start of a meeting a welcome to country cer...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Feminist scientist: "If some animals can have babies without males, why can't humans?"

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Arathi Prasad was born in Trinidad but now lives in London. She has written a book about artificial reproduction called Like a Virgin: The ...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Memo to Jeremy Clarkson: Britain abolished international slavery

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Popular Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson isn't afraid of speaking his mind. That's increasingly rare and I commend him for it. ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

W.L. George - when a male feminist gets it wrong

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We sometimes forget that feminism is now a very old political movement. There were feminist writers in the early 1800s, but it seems to have...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Pilkington's rest

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I know this kind of music is not to everyone's taste, but I find it beautiful. Here is a song called Rest, Sweet Nymphs by Francis Pilk...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Getting altruism right

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It seems to me that one weakness in Western thought is that we are caught between two false positions: the first is an overly radical selfis...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Have the Olympics become toxic?

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I really tried hard to enjoy the 2012 Olympics, but I have to admit defeat. Things began badly with a highly politicised opening ceremon...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Conservative Anglicans leave

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Four Anglican ministers and their congregations here in Melbourne are leaving the Anglican Church and joining the Catholic Church. They bel...
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