January, 2024 - Rationale Magazine

31 Jan

If you want peace in Palestine, don’t start from here!

01/02/2024
By Ian Robinson
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There is an oft-told joke about someone lost in a rural area who finally encounters a local and requests directions to their destinatio...

28 Jan

Philosophy & Psychology

Seeking common ground across the political divide

28/01/2024
By Melissa Wheeler
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Some topics are hard to define. They are nebulous; their meanings are elusive. Topics relating to morality fit this description. So do ...

24 Jan

History

The dismissal: Truth at last

31/01/2024
By Geoffrey Barker
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The dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975 was the most devastating and potentially dangerous constitutional crisis in Au...

21 Jan

Art, Humour & Poetry

Divine tragedy

31/01/2024
By Roger Chao
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In an age of times unrecorded, unthinkably remote and arcane, A conclave of gods indescribable, adrift in a cosmic domain. Non-physic...

17 Jan

Ethics & Religion

Paul Kingsnorth’s new religiousness

31/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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On Christmas Day, an essay appeared in the online magazine UnHerd under the title ‘Our Godless era is dead: A second religiousness i...

14 Jan

Philosophy & Psychology

Talking together in the ‘big tent’ of free speech

14/01/2024
By John Corvino
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People often extol the virtue of open-mindedness, but can there be too much of a good thing? As a college dean, I regularly o...

13 Jan

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

10 Jan

Law & Politics

Next steps in campaign to remove prayers from local government

31/01/2024
By Victor Franco
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This article is based on a speech given at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December 2023 in Sydney. In October, afte...

07 Jan

Philosophy & Psychology

How even rational people have sceptical blind spots

07/01/2024
By James Fodor
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Most readers would doubtless recognise the importance of being sceptical about the information, arguments, and ideas that we encounter,...

05 Jan

Letters to the Editor

Conference shows what secularists are for, not against

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

02 Jan

Uncategorized

Rationale’s top reads of 2023

As we set out on a new year for the Rationale magazine, it’s worth taking a look back at the past year to see what articles resonated m...

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