Mar 27 2012
Iris Murdoch against the robots By Andrew Brown, Tuesday 27 March 2012 04.30 EDT … The Sovereignty of Good is a title very easy to misunderstand: it’s a short work by Iris Murdoch, which appears at first glance to suggest that we live in a world where Good triumphs, which is not what she meant …
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Mar 10 2012
Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility By Lisa Miller, March 2, 2012 … Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of his own, and in an early debate, perhaps unwilling to be outdone by Michele Bachmann’s fostering …
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Feb 24 2012
The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make By Kaleem Aftab, Monday 20 February 2012 … A Finnish sci-fi film about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second World War has turned out to be the unlikely hot ticket of this year’s Berlin …
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Feb 18 2012
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet By Jonathan Freedland, Friday 17 February 2012 13.59 EST … Does the past matter? When confronted by facts that are uncomfortable, but which relate to people long dead, should we put them aside and, to use a phrase very much of our time, move on? …
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Feb 10 2012
Most of Obama’s “Controversial” Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years By Nick Baumann, Wed Feb. 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST … President Barack Obama’s decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer it at no cost has created a firestorm of controversy. But the central mandate—that most employers …
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Feb 03 2012
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out By Robert Fisk, Saturday 04 February 2012 … If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crackpot, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is …
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Jan 31 2012
With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war By George Monbiot, Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the …
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