January, 2023 - Rationale Magazine

31 Jan

Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or 'the age', was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the ...

29 Jan

Science & Health

Success without substance

29/01/2023
By Adrian Barnett
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New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel d...

27 Jan

Law & Politics

In recognising all faiths and beliefs, we can show fairness and equity

10/01/2024
By David Lewis
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Fraser Coast Regional Council on 25 February 2023. It is republished with ...

25 Jan

Ethics & Religion

The faithless in foxholes

26/01/2023
By Noel Turnbull
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There is an old saying – there are no atheists in foxholes. In reality, modern soldiers are unlikely to be in a foxhole. But, if they w...

22 Jan

Business & Economics

How the philosophy of the past can help us imagine the economy of the future

22/01/2023
By Helen McCabe
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The economy keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons — stories about rising prices, supply shortages and a loomin...

20 Jan

Law & Politics

The finest kind of democratic leader

07/02/2023
By Paul Monk
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Word has spread. After five and a half years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down by 7 February. She ha...

18 Jan

Feature series, Philosophy & Psychology

The antidote to arrogance: How to be wrong the right way

This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the June 2020 edition of Australi...

16 Jan

Law & Politics

Is there a ‘right to disobey’?

16/01/2023
By Jon Piccini
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One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labor government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their bel...

14 Jan

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

12 Jan

Feature series

You can’t say that: The knotty problem of free speech

12/01/2023
By James Fodor
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This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the Autumn 2017 edition of Austra...

10 Jan

Ethics & Religion

George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex

18/01/2023
By Hugh Harris
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Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by ...

08 Jan

Feature series

The importance of being objective

08/01/2023
By Leslie Allan
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This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the March 2019 edition of Austral...

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