Bantam Press, 2006. Many years ago when I read the short volume by atheist Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian, I thought: there…
I have mentioned before Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion. While familiar with some of his earlier work, I have yet to fully read…
It is not often discussed, but perhaps the biggest losers in the new biotech revolution are women. They often pay the heaviest price, be it…
Touchy, touchy. That is the immediate reaction one gets to the latest comments by Family Court Chief Justice Alistair Nicholson. Speaking in Brisbane on Wednesday, Justice Nicholson…
The push for human cloning continues around the world. Sure, most people say they do not want to see humans cloned, but they do want…
Spinifex Press, 2006. Melinda Tankard Reist is at it again. In 2000 she performed an invaluable service with her book, Giving Sorrow Words. In it…
With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 44 languages, and a blockbuster film due out in mid-May, The Da Vinci Code has made…
Often the most dangerous scenarios come packaged in the most attractive of wrappings. Various promises of heaven on earth are an example. Consider the case…
Hollywood seems to be getting religion lately. Or perhaps more accurately, Hollywood is discovering that there is money to be made in religious films. The…
Helen Pringle in her article, “The case of the violinist and the fetus,” resurrects an old argument in order to shed new light on the…
A review of Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work. By Jennifer Roback Morse.
Spence Publishing, 2001. What does the free-market have to do with the family? What does libertarianism have to do with community? What does the minimal…
Metropolitan Books, 2001. Motherhood is the most under-valued job in the Western world today, argues economics journalist Ann Crittenden. While everyone may give lip service…
Robert Nisbet once remarked that environmentalism has become the third great redemptive movement in human history, following Christianity and Marxism. Indeed it already has its…
Basic Books, 1995. Thirty years ago American Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”. In it…
Free Press/Macmillan, 1992. The tenet of cultural relativism has been around for quite some time. The cold war version went something like this: Liberal/leftists insisted…