These people want our foreign policy made in China
So Julie Bishop has a Huawei-donated iPad. Dangerous. Dangerous for her and dangerous for Australia if she ever aspires to become Foreign Minister. The iPad alone is but one of the micro details to emerge from Ms Bishop’s visit to China as a guest of the Chinese telco.

At last, a judge tells the truth about divorce
At last, a member of the judiciary has broken ranks to warn of a social disaster that has taken place on the courts’ own watch.

Apocalyptic Daze
As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing before their eyes. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by—but first, a strange old man, Professor Philippulus, dressed in a white sheet and wearing a long beard, appears, beating a gong and crying: “This is a punishment; repent, for the world is ending!”

Education: Speaking in Forked Tongues
"Why Bilinguals Are Smarter," a recent column in the New York Times, suggests that children raised in two-language homes tend to have higher IQs, because their brains are forced to be more nimble.

Choose Your Poison!
Personal medicine or population medicine: which will it be for you?

How the Left turned against the Jews
In Weimar Germany, riddled with resentment after defeat in World War I and the national catastrophe of the Treaty of Versailles, demagogues knew that they could win the attention of the mob by palming the race card from the bottom of the deck.

How to save marriage from hitting the rocks
Marriage has had a good press lately. More people are marrying and more people are staying married. This is welcome news. I have recently met a number of community groups that promote marriage in schools, colleges and generally in society, an encouraging and hopeful experience for me. But of course while I welcome this greater interest in marriage, both in promoting it and defending it, it is impossible to do so unless we understand what marriage and the family are.

Passion for same-sex marriage a problem for Labor
THE Labor Party comes to next weekend's national conference with a political passion for same-sex marriage far removed from its low priority with the public and fixated by the false polemic of "marriage equality".

It's all about the children, not selfish adults
Ethicist Margaret Somerville examines the clash between upholding the human rights of children to know and be raised by their biological parents, and the claims of homosexual adults wanting same-sex marriage.(The Australian, July 23, 2011)

Can the Middle Class Be Saved?
Don Peck, features editor of The Atlantic magazine, examines the growing disparity of wealth in America, the shrinking middle class and the social implications for families and the culture. (The Atlantic, September, 2011)