It is only 2006, and people have already dubbed this new century the Information Age, the Digital Age or the Connectivity Age. I have a more accurate name for the 21st century, and I encourage us all to start using it today: The New Middle Ages. Rousseau once wrote: Nothing is more depressing than the general fate of men. And yet they feel in themselves a consuming desire to become happy, and it makes them feel at every moment that they were born to be happy. So why are they not? Information Age? More like the New Middle Ages via my mates at School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales
Politicians no longer govern, somebody has observed, they perform. More important yet, are the main party leaders hot or cool? Are you hot or cool?
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: The Victory of Reason
It is quite plausible that Christianity remains an essential element in the globalization of modernity
Augustine and Aquinas had a faith in progress and reason, which led to our notions freedom, moral equality, and human rights
• The Christian roots of capitalism [Democracies often find it strangely difficult to reorient themselves in such a way as to produce a change in government Political uses of catastrophes ; Sri Lanka’s Tigers on the loose ]
• · The big five privatizations of 2005 wrought more than scandals — some have shaken the government to its foundation Up for grabs ; Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune published a three-part series on the presence of mercury in fish sold in supermarkets The Mercury Menace ; Biological Weapons
• · · Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors ; Australians have now lost one of their most fundamental rights in a democracy -- the right to withdraw their labour The right to strike -- put with powerful simplicity ; If there is a real winner in the walkout that hobbled the city, it is the workers who went out on strike, and their leader. New York Transit Deal Shows Union's Success on Many Fronts
• · · · The spotlight has shifted in the Robert Gerard tax saga. DPP can still prosecute Gerard; Oops: Tax Office sums out by almost $7b
• · · · · There were lots of starring roles, though no others quite like Ronald Miller's A whizz of a year for the common law ; It's not just the common agricultural policy: the corporate sector relies on state handouts that dwarf their profits Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes Free market does not exist
• · · · · · As widely reported, at the daily press gaggle yesterday, US administration mouthpiece Trent Duffy claimed that, among much else, the George jr. Bush was actually reading some books while on vacation When Trumpets Call ; The Peace Epidemic The world isn't so dangerous after all