June, 2023 - Rationale Magazine

27 Jun

Survival of the fit enough and lucky enough

27/06/2023
By Robert Thurman
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The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s masterful contribution to our understanding of evolution, was penned more than 150 years ago. S...

24 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

How analytic philosophers sought to slough off the dead weight of history

24/06/2023
By Andrew Milne
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Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised arou...

21 Jun

Science & Health

Reacting to pandemics

21/06/2023
By Jack Dikian
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The New Testament (Matthew 11:29) describes the relationship we have – or should have – with Jesus as a kind of work. “Take my y...

18 Jun

Science & Health

The problem with institutional conscientious objection in our healthcare system

18/06/2023
By Meredith Doig
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On the ABC's Religion & Ethics website recently, Joanna Howe, a Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School, claimed ...

14 Jun

Education

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

15/06/2023
By Hugh Harris
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) looks like it’s jettisoning the long-held ideal that schools are “universal, free and secular”....

11 Jun

Ethics & Religion

Peter FitzSimons: ‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate

11/06/2023
By Peter FitzSimons
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This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestn...

10 Jun

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

08 Jun

Science & Health

Fixing Australia’s abortion postcode lottery

08/06/2023
By Danielle Mazza
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When the American legal precedent protecting women’s right to an abortion in the United States, Roe versus Wade, was overturned last...

05 Jun

Science & Health

AI and the problems of personification

05/06/2023
By David James
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In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qu...

02 Jun

Letters to the Editor

Readers show ‘defensive and uninformed perspectives’ on circumcision

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01 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

Three lessons from Aristotle on friendship

01/06/2023
By Emily Katz
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While most love songs are inspired by the joys and heartaches of romantic relationships, love between friends can be just as intense an...

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