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A Beginner's Guide to Banning Abortion, From the USA?

A Beginner's Guide to Banning Abortion, From the USA? - Tim Stanley

'The best way to kill the abortion industry is not through religious moralising. It’s through red tape.'

A Male Teacher can Never Replace a Missing Father

A Male Teacher can Never Replace a Missing Father - Katherine Birbalsingh

Is there a link between the shortage of male teachers, particularly at Primary School level, and the underachievement of boys at school?

The Riots: An Opportunity to Build Trust

The Riots: An Opportunity to Build Trust - Austen Ivereigh

Tariq Jahan could calm a city because his faith gave him a wider view. His mosque sits outside a cycle of social disintegration.

The World Will Be More Crowded - With Old People

The World Will Be More Crowded - With Old People - Phillip Longman

'The human population will continue to grow, though in a very different way from in the past.' Phillip Longman analyses the latest population projection figures from the United Nations.

© Foreign Policy

From Christ to Coke

From Christ to Coke - Roger Scruton

A new book on icons stretches the definition too far. Unlike the Coca-Cola bottle, true icons have power and stand at the border of forbidden things

© Prospect Magazine

The Epidemic of Mental Illness/The Illusions of Psychiatry

Part One: The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

Part Two: The Illusions of Psychiatry

By Marcia Angell

‘It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it… Nowadays treatment by medical doctors nearly always means psychoactive drugs, that is, drugs that affect the mental state… What is going on here? Is the prevalence of mental illness really that high and still climbing? [...] Or are we learning to recognize and diagnose mental disorders that were always there? On the other hand, are we simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one? And what about the drugs that are now the mainstay of treatment? Do they work? If they do, shouldn’t we expect the prevalence of mental illness to be declining, not rising?’

Religion in Society

Religion in Society -- Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe

A submission by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe to the European Union’s ‘RELIGARE’ project on ‘Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe’. The Observatory’s submission attempts to define ‘the truth and meaning of concepts such as “religious freedom”, “freedom of conscience”, “secularism”’ and the like, and to make fitting policy recommendations, aiming ultimately to map ‘the way to a Europe that is conscious of its heritage and has respect for fundamental rights, without disregarding today’s plurality of religion and belief’.

Rebuilding the Russian Family

Rebuilding the Russian Family -- Carolyn Moynihan

While the rhetoric in the west is of population control and 'responsible' family sizes Russia's average lifespan stands at 66 and its population is shrinking. In an effort to curb the effects of abortion on demand and a reluctance to have children the powers that be have been encouraging the Russian people, over the last few years, to have more children.

Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?

Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life? -- Richard Doerflinger

Originally forming part of the Hastings Centre Report this essay by Richard Doerflinger highlights the weaknesses in the arguments most frequently presented in support of assisted suicide and euthanasia concluding that '[i]f the strict philosophical case on behalf of "rational suicide" lacks coherence, the pragmatic claim that its acceptance would be a social benefit lacks grounding in history or common sense.'

Malta's Folly

Malta's Folly -- Meghan Duke

The Maltese have voted to legalise divorce, but, argues Meghan Duke, it ‘surely would have been better for Malta to learn from the mistakes of the modern world before rushing to join it’.

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