Money from love
In an encyclical released this week, an intellectually adventurous Pope asserts that love is ultimately the solution to the world economic crisis. Today, by "economy" or "economical", what first comes…
Where teen pregnancies come from – the Brits still don’t get it
A programme launched by the British government in 2004 to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies in the UK has had the opposite effect, a study published in the British…
Pope’s letter calls for openness to human life
Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical letter, “On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth”, discusses a wide spectrum of social realities, among them the need for openness to new human…
A family-friendly White House?
American first couple Barack and Michelle Obama are trying to keep some balance between their hugely demanding jobs and family life. They have also promised a family-friendly workplace for their…
Drink! Drink! Drink! Students keep bingeing during general decline
Good news and bad news about young people and binge drinking: in the United States, anyway, reckless drinking is down over all, but not among college students. Among 18- to…
Japan’s woman-shy, homebody men
A new breed of Japanese men is provoking a national debate about how the country’s economic stagnation since the early 1990s has altered men’s behaviour, and whether or not it…
The wrong cure for infertility
Turning baby-making into a technology can have devastating results. For some men and women, IVF can seem like a godsend. Inability is always felt as a grievous loss for loving…
The private world of child abuse
The abusive institutions have closed but adults are still trampling all over the rights of children. One of the great discoveries of the twentieth century is the rights of children.…
Families matters
Private choices, public costs: How failing families cost us all "What we know is that marriage is a very significant institution, not just for individuals, but for the social whole."…
Billboard blight
A rancid advertising campaign shows the difference between sex and love. “Want Longer Lasting Sex?”; “Want Longer Lasting… Censored”; “Bonk Longer”. Like the plagues that were cast upon the Egyptians,…
Married, with children, pays
Money talks at the Economist, and the talk in this item from May, which has just been brought to our attention, is that in most of the developed world it…
Wrong girl, Archie!
Stunning, heart-breaking news: Archie Andrews is going to get married, and he has chosen the wrong girl. Archie Comics Publications has announced that he will soon pop the question to…