Category: Liege & Lief

The headline of the article read “Crystal Meth Crackdown Urged”. The story, from the Canadian Press, was that the Premiers of the four Western Provinces (and three northern Territories), meeting in Lloydminster, had issued a communique announcing a plan to deal with the growing popularity of the highly addictive drug, crystal methamphetimine. There was a…

This is a book review of “One Nation, Two Cultures” by Gertrude Himmelfarb. She published this book in 1995, her next book after “The De-Moralization of Society” which was mainly a study in the history of ideas. “One Nation, Two Cultures” is more a work of social criticism than history. She looks at why and…

This is a book review of “The De-moralization of Society, From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values” (1994), by Gertrude Himmelfarb, historian and writer. I have read a couple of her books after reading this review of her latest book “The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments”.

There is an essay by Jennifer Roback Morse called “Marriage and the Limits of Contract” at the Policy Review Online. The author and the journal have a libertarian perspective, a minimum-government perspective that is usually called conservative in the Canadian, American and British political traditions. I think her ideas are more based in natural law…

[Updated entry]. There was a documentary on The Fifth Estate on CBC TV about crystal meth, n’s addiction. It was on the regular network on March 23, 2005 and was played on the Newsworld cable channel several times later in the week. After the show premiered, CBC set up a Dark Crystal microsite which has…

Two BBC news stories from Europe on the Girbaud poster and billboard campaign. A French Court has banned the poster – apparently throughout France. The municipal authorities in Milan banned the picture on billboards. The picture, which is in the linked stories, has Hot female models posed as Christ and the Apostles as in Leonardo…

The Canadian Parliament has been debating a Bill relating to same-sex marriage. Bill C-38 says: “Marriage, for civil purposes, is the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others.” This would replace or alter the legal definition of marriage, which had been established by judicial precedent in 1866 as “the voluntary union…

An interesting story, courtesy of the BBC World News Web service about a survey of American teens. One of the findings is that American teens tend to be authoritarian in defence of patriotic values. They tend to think the First Amendment is too liberal and promotes anti-American values. The group responsible for the survey has…