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What's Wrong with the Teenage Mind?

What's Wrong with the Teenage Mind? - Alison Gopnik

'Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.'

Family; Social Construction or Natural Phenomenon?

Family; Social Construction or Natural Phenomenon? - Brenda Almond

'Professor Brenda Almond examines the ideas undermining the belief that the biological family is of special importance.'

The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics

The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics - The Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science.

'In this inaugural report, the Witherspoon Council considers the proper relationship between science, ethics, and politics by examining the most prominent science-related controversy of the past decade: the stem cell debates. These debates touched on fundamental questions concerning the governance of science and the moral status of embryonic human life.’

Nature, Nuture and Liberal Values

Nature, Nuture and Liberal Values - Roger Scruton

'Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses.'

Address to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome by the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

Address to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome - Jonathan Sacks

'Instead of the market being framed by moral principles, it comes to substitute for moral principle. If you can buy it, negotiate it, earn it and afford it, then you are entitled to it – as the advertisers say – because you’re worth it. The market ceases to be merely a system and becomes an ideology in its own right.'

Forgiveness is a Wild Kind of Justice

Forgiveness is a Wild Kind of Justice - Theodore Dalrymple

'If we did not have the capacity to forgive, every argument would end in divorce or murder, or at any rate in some very unpleasant consequence.'

The Books Interview: Roger Scruton

The Books Interview: Roger Scruton - Jonathan Derbyshire

Roger Scruton discusses his new book, Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet, with the culture editor of the New Statesman, Jonathan Derbyshire.

... and the Pursuit of Happiness: Wellbeing and the Role of Government

... and the Pursuit of Happiness: Wellbeing and the Role of Government - ed. Philip Booth

This publication, edited by Philip Booth, takes issue with the idea that government can and should act to increase happiness. Philip Booth states the following: 'he government is spending money on collecting happiness statistics in order to promote government policies to try to increase aggregate national happiness. This is a flawed policy and based on a complete misconception that governments hitherto have focused only on increasing national income.'

Let us Care for the ill and vulnerable - not help them to die

Let us Care for the ill and vulnerable - not help them to die - Michael Nazir-Ali

'There will, of course, be hard cases where it is right to exercise compassion and not to prosecute a relative or friend who has helped someone to take their life. Hard cases, however, make bad law and execptions should not be turned into principles.'

How Not to Save the Union

How Not to Save the Union - Alex Massie

'For once, just for once, it would be pleasing to see senior Unionist politicians make a case for the Union that is based on something more than the benefits - many of them real - Scotland has enjoyed from its partnership with England.'

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