July, 2025 - Rationale Magazine

31 Jul

When AI audits the scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science?

31/07/2025
By Naomi Oreskes
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Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise res...

27 Jul

Law & Politics

Tackling antisemitism can’t be at the expense of a free and open society

27/07/2025
By Ian Robinson
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At the heart of the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism recently released by Jillian Segal, Australia’s Special Envoy to...

24 Jul

Letters to the Editor

End the government funding of faith workers

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

21 Jul

Law & Politics

Democracy and the legitimacy of political power

22/07/2025
By John Wright
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Imagine that one day your neighbour knocks on your door and proceeds to tell you what to do. They might tell you how you can, or cannot...

18 Jul

Science & Health

Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t

18/07/2025
By Edward White
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One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, ...

13 Jul

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson. Published 13 July 2025.

11 Jul

Ethics & Religion

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism?

11/07/2025
By Art Jipson
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Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, o...

08 Jul

Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

08/07/2025
By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

04 Jul

History

A century on from Scopes trial, America’s culture war over evolution and creationism rages on

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evoluti...

01 Jul

Ethics & Religion

Cult survivors on a mission for meaningful change

Of all the difficult issues parliamentary inquiries have sought to gain insight into, the Victorian Parliament’s examination of recruit...

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