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Films about human dignity

Here's a selection of some great films about human dignity. Help us to add more -- comments, please! 


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Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy

The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today across a huge area from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans and even beyond.



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A failure of ethical imagination

Some scientists cannot understand that our most treasured values are at stake in research on human embryos. 



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The Weight of a Mustard Seed

The general who commanded Saddam Hussein's troops during the First Gulf War was a fundamentally decent man caught in a web of corruption.



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Korea’s population crisis

Korea is suffering from a national crisis of super-low fertility. The head of the Korean affiliate of Planned Parenthood explains why.



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The real struggle in Iran

The fantasy of democrats overthrowing the Islamic Republic has passed. In any case, none of the warring factions at the top is friendly to the US.



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40 years of gay “rights”

Although President Obama is hosting a gala reception for gay leaders in the White House, has the time come for homosexual marriage?



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How to treat an unfaithful husband

Jenny Sanford is willing to forgive her husband and welcome him back - in time. Is that enough?



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‘I was framed’

A science writer is written off as 'religious' for defending uncertainty in science.



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Gatekeepers of life

How should doctors deal with potential conflict-of-interest when prescribing expensive drugs?



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The politics of food

You aren't going to eat that are you? Tales of seals eaten more than 100 miles away.



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Athenians and Visigoths Neil Postman's graduation speech. | First Things

Death in birth Fragile Tanzanian Orphans Get Help After Mothers Die. | New York Times

Giving the green light to suicide Revelations that non-terminally ill people were euthanised in Switzerland calls into question the ‘right to die’ campaign. | Spiked

Obama’s Favorite Theologian? A short course on Reinhold Niebuhr. | Pew Forum

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade | Atlantic

Modern Slavery Comes to Kansas Workers who were exploited abroad tend to be exploited here. | Wall Street Journal

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