May, 2024 - Rationale Magazine

31 May

Australia’s changing spiritual landscape

31/05/2024
By Anna Halafoff
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Spirituality is increasingly popular with young Australians: recent research shows 38 per cent of Gen Z Australians identify as ...

28 May

Business & Economics

We all suffer when harmful industries define progress

What you perceive as progress depends on your perspective. To the logger, progress is cleared land, but to the conservationist it is tr...

25 May

Ethics & Religion

Time to take religion out of Anzac Day services

25/05/2024
By Si Gladman
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Plenty of non-religious Australians have fought, and have died, in war for our country. While the insulting line that there are “no at...

21 May

Philosophy & Psychology

Dennett’s dangerous ideas

21/05/2024
By Dr Myint Zan
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A stanza in the Buddhist text Dhammapada states: “There never was, there never will be, nor does there exist now a person who is wholly...

18 May

Science & Health

Unravelling life’s origin

There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth. The definition of life itself is a source of debate am...

16 May

Science & Health

Biology by the book

16/05/2024
By Ric Streatfield
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Back in 1987, around the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as a Senior Medical Officer I had volunteered to do a Queens...

12 May

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

11 May

Law & Politics

Antisemitism: No echo of the past in current troubles

11/05/2024
By Michael Liffman
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I have been re-reading the unbearably heart-rending letters sent from my parents in Germany and Austria to their more fortunate family ...

07 May

Letters to the Editor

Scomo and the ‘Rapture gang’

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

04 May

Ethics & Religion

Waving goodbye to imaginary friends

05/05/2024
By Graeme Gibson
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Let me introduce you to a young boy known as ‘Peanut’. James Delarue is his real name but, with affection, everyone calls him Peanut. P...

01 May

History

Why it’s important to deal with the dark history of witch-hunting

In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western E...

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