March, 2023 - Rationale Magazine

31 Mar

Reflecting on the Russian Revolution

31/03/2023
By Reg Naulty
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The Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky famously remarked that the great Russian humanist intelligentsia, who included Pushkin and Her...

29 Mar

Law & Politics

Our parliament needs to become a more inclusive and welcoming place for all

29/03/2023
By Mike Gaffney
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Tasmanian Legislative Council 28 March 2023. It is republished with permis...

27 Mar

Law & Politics

What can be done to help Australia’s biodiversity

27/03/2023
By Natalya Maitz
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The regent honeyeater is a small bird, mostly black, with speckles of soft yellow dotted down its body. Its chirp is a scratchy warble ...

24 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions

24/03/2023
By Neil McArthur
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We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence o...

21 Mar

Science & Health

Lessons from social science forecasting during the pandemic

Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to ...

19 Mar

Science & Health

Multiverse: Betting on what’s beyond the horizon

19/03/2023
By Martin Rees
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It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kin...

16 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

The tyranny of story

16/03/2023
By Ian Robinson
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Story was once a tool for understanding the world and for improving it. The hero or heroine always defeated the monsters. Today, sto...

14 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Wollstonecraft: An introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism

14/03/2023
By Bridget Cotter
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Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years. Though considered the mother of first-wave feminism, the 18th-ce...

11 Mar

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

09 Mar

Law & Politics

Taking a critical look at cancel culture

10/03/2023
By Alan Petersen
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The recent decision of the major law firm MinterEllison to sever ties with the Adelaide Festival because it invited two Palestin...

07 Mar

Business & Economics

How deregulation left central banks with few weapons

07/03/2023
By David James
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Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Western financial markets have experienced steadily falling interest rates. Three years ago,...

05 Mar

Science & Health

How amateur scientists are making important discoveries

05/03/2023
By Mark Lorch
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What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures...

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