Christopher Scanlon

Christopher Scanlon is a writer and commentator who has written features, essays, opinion and review articles on topics as diverse as Twilight to the bleak outlook for the world’s 6000 languages.

2017 ATAR results: the growing disconnect between VCE and university entrance

The Victorian Certificate of Education turned 25 this year. After a quarter of a century, and with the class of 2017 awaiting their ATARs this week, is it time for a rethink?

We’ve turned Anzac Day into another consumerist binge-fest

Banks and utilities are grooming us to be easy targets for cyber criminals

Happiness™

Why I don’t call my daughter ‘Princess’

The one thing all dads can do to boost their daughter’s ambition

We’re all The Walking Dead: how would other countries deal with the zombie apocalypse?

The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes and his ‘family’ are the embodiment of dog-eat-dog capitalism. Would other societies have fared better in the zombie apocalypse?

How my eating disorder changes the way I parent my children

The numbers don’t have it: why measuring won’t lead to better health

In praise of partisanship: Triggs is on the side of human rights

Five hard question every dad should prepare themselves to answer

Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both?

People argue over whether learning should take place online or face-to-face, but does it have to be one or the other?

I have daughters and I don’t want you to feel sorry for me

Wired for happiness? Evolutionary psychology falls short of science

Bogans and hipsters: we’re talking the living language of class

Australia Day: is nationalism really so bad?

How should men act around children?

Giving it away for free: sharing really is caring in the open education movement

This is what good parenting looks like