The Ethic of Control: Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, and Planned Parenthood by Angela Franz2/25/09 The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), despite coming under frequent attacks by pro-lifers, remains one of the most respected and well-funded organizations in the country. Add the Internation...

Writing from the Philippines, Lode Wostyn situates the Pope’s book within the development of Christology after Vatican II (East Asian Pastoral Review 45.1, 2008). “Ratzinger’s Christology goes beyond the Councils of Nicaea-Chalcedon by simply erasing all the disagreements and ambiguities that ...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

COMMENT  Adam Smith's market never stood alone By Amartya Sen Published: March 10 2009 20:15 | Last updated: March 10 2009 20:15   Exactly 90 years ago, in March 1919, faced with another economic crisis, Vladimir Lenin discussed the dire straits of contemporary capitalism. He was, however,...

The French have rejoined NATO: PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France intends to become a full member of NATO, 43 years after Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of the alliance’s military command and threw NATO, and American forces, out of the country. “Because it i...

Junior magazine has released outtakes from the cover spread with model Rodrigo Calazans. 20-year-old actor Kayky Brito, who is on the cover of gay magazine DOM this month, posed for Quem magazine. You will probably not be seeing pictures of Jesus Luz at the Kabbalah Center next weekend. The model ha...

Here is the trailer for the superb filmmaker Pierre Rehov's Silent Exodus. Silent Exodus was selected at the International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris in 2004 and presented at the UN Geneva Human Rights Annual Convention that same year. Here is a summary of the film: In 1948 nearly one milli...

"Se qualcuno ci vuole credere, faccia pure. Ma non si invochino “prove� o “argomenti�: questo è soltanto dogmatismo fideistico. Un dogmatismo totalitario e intollerante, come testimoniano la vicenda del vescovo Williamson e le galere austriache e tedesche che ospitano gli eretici revisionis...

There is, of course news of the other sort. But the bad news is easy to find and usually much more widely discussed. Here instead is a round up of the positive news stories from 20 February to 6 March 2009 from Afghanistan. I focus on this, not only to attempt to balance the scales in the tone depar...

WFMU's fundraising Marathon is underway! Tune in now through March 15th to join in on the fun with your favorite DJs spinning their favorite hits, special co-hosts,and prize giveaways galore. We've also put together a fine batch of DJ Premiums: any of these handcrafted CDs are available for ...