February, 2023 - Rationale Magazine

27 Feb

Protecting Australian politics in the school curriculum

28/02/2023
By Lucas Walsh
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Several years ago, I was researching young social entrepreneurs, what makes them tick, and what they need to succeed. I am a youth rese...

25 Feb

Ethics & Religion

The day I stood up to bullshit

The first time I was suspended from school came in Year 8. To some, that might seem a little early to receive a penalty as serious as a...

22 Feb

Education

Rather than ‘bowdlerising’ books, we need to help children navigate history

22/02/2023
By Michelle Smith
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Although several of his best-known children’s books were first published in the 1960s, Roald Dahl is among the most popular authors for...

20 Feb

Science & Health

Why I wrote a book on circumcision

I’ve spent the last 10 years researching and writing a book on circumcision. The first question most people ask me is, quite simply, wh...

17 Feb

Law & Politics

The spread of QAnon beyond the United States

17/02/2023
By Robert Dover
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The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22 per cent o...

15 Feb

Ethics & Religion

Euthanasia through the ages

18/02/2023
By Hugh Breakey
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Are our moral judgements about euthanasia a product of our time? If we came from a different culture, might our changed views about the...

13 Feb

Law & Politics

The imperfect union of two presidents

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Bide...

11 Feb

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

09 Feb

Science & Health

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Researchers can't progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and th...

07 Feb

Ethics & Religion

How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny

I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as we all rose in deference to ...

05 Feb

Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available a...

03 Feb

History

Beethoven, music and human progress

05/02/2023
By Paul Monk
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One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into Melbourne’s central busine...

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