August, 2024 - Rationale Magazine

31 Aug

Andrew Leigh’s rose-coloured religious glasses

31/08/2024
By Si Gladman
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Andrew Leigh, who grew up in a religious family, may now be a self-described atheist, but he views religion through rose-coloured glass...

28 Aug

Law & Politics

Where’s the ‘honour’ in an ‘honour killing’?

31/08/2024
By Anna Hardy
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Earlier this year, a father defended the attempted so-called ‘honour killing’ of his own daughter in South Australia’s Supreme C...

24 Aug

Business & Economics

The transformation of the world economy

25/08/2024
By David James
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In geoeconomic and financial terms, the Earth has begun shifting on its axis. Triggered by the West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine,...

20 Aug

Science & Health

How science really works

20/08/2024
By Soazig Le Bihan
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. A man in a lab coa...

18 Aug

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

16 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

Why ‘science communication’ needs to harness human curiosity

16/08/2024
By James Fodor
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. Science communicat...

13 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

From my brush with breast cancer, I know the value of science – and the need to defend it – more than ever

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. Many people are no...

11 Aug

Feature series, Law & Politics

Sotomayor’s dissent and the future of a republic

11/08/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

07 Aug

Letters to the Editor

When all meaning is thrown overboard

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 Aug

Ethics & Religion

What to expect when leaving a cult or toxic group

There’s a lot they don’t tell you about leaving a cult, a high-control religion or toxic group. They don’t exactly warn you that you co...

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