THE SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY DISADVANTAGE
Iain Murray has recently commented on a large Swedish study that shows clear psychological disadvantage among chilren from single-parent families. Iain and everybody else seem to be interpreting this as showing that single-parent families are a bad thing.
Such families may well be a bad thing. I believe they [...]
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THE SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY DISADVANTAGE
Iain Murray has recently commented on a large Swedish study that shows clear psychological disadvantage among chilren from single-parent families. Iain and everybody else seem to be interpreting this as showing that single-parent families are a bad thing.
Such families may well be a bad thing. I believe they [...]
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LIBERTY: GERMANIC OR CHRISTIAN?
Orrin Judd and many other American Christians think that Christianity is the main source of the high level of respect for individual liberties that prevails in English-speaking countries.
I respectfully disagree. I have argued that it is our pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon heritage (working largely via Protestantism in recent centuries) that is [...]
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LIBERTY: GERMANIC OR CHRISTIAN?
Orrin Judd and many other American Christians think that Christianity is the main source of the high level of respect for individual liberties that prevails in English-speaking countries.
I respectfully disagree. I have argued that it is our pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon heritage (working largely via Protestantism in recent centuries) that is [...]
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THE BIRTHDAY OF A POET
Every year — year after year — millions of people around the world gather together to celebrate with great ceremony and merriment the birthday of a poet. And there is only one poet so honoured: Robert Burns. For people with a Scottish heritage it is one of the greatest [...]
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THE BIRTHDAY OF A POET
Every year — year after year — millions of people around the world gather together to celebrate with great ceremony and merriment the birthday of a poet. And there is only one poet so honoured: Robert Burns. For people with a Scottish heritage it is one of the greatest [...]
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FROM TOLKIEN TO HAYEK AND BACK
Tim Gillin writes:
The great Peter Jackson movie adaption of J.R.R Tolkien’s LORD OF THE RINGS has been doing great guns in cinemas around the world. Tolkien of course was a devout Christian, arch-conservative and opposed to authoritarian and arbitrary power of any sort.
This recent article at the Acton Society site [...]
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FROM TOLKIEN TO HAYEK AND BACK
Tim Gillin writes:
The great Peter Jackson movie adaption of J.R.R Tolkien’s LORD OF THE RINGS has been doing great guns in cinemas around the world. Tolkien of course was a devout Christian, arch-conservative and opposed to authoritarian and arbitrary power of any sort.
This recent article at the Acton Society site [...]
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AUSTRALIAN TROOPS MOVE
I live in Brisbane and our daily newspaper is the Murdoch-owned �Courier Mail�. Its headline today is �Bravehearts set sail� — reporting that Australian troops have just left to join U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf readying for war with Iraq. I wonder how the N.Y. Times would have reported the [...]
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AUSTRALIAN TROOPS MOVE
I live in Brisbane and our daily newspaper is the Murdoch-owned �Courier Mail�. Its headline today is �Bravehearts set sail� — reporting that Australian troops have just left to join U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf readying for war with Iraq. I wonder how the N.Y. Times would have reported the [...]
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