Posts by Paul Monk
23
Nov
This article is the second part in a two-part series. Read the first part here.
Athenian democracy was well short of an idea...
20
Nov
Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 1)
This article is the first in a two-part series.
That the liberal democracies are floundering has been widely observed. That’s not to...
18
Sep
The American diet: Serving up sickness
Most of you will be aware of the acronym ‘SAD’, standing for the Standard American Diet. Yes?
That diet, since the Second World War...
11
Aug
Sotomayor’s dissent and the future of a republic
This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...
18
Jun
Joseph Stiglitz and economic ideology
Joseph Stiglitz, 81, was Chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors between 1995 and 1997, then Chief Economist at th...
12
Apr
Archbishop Fisher’s slicing and dicing of religion
In The Australian on March 25 this year, front page and op-ed coverage was given to objections by the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney to ...
31
Mar
Jordan Peterson, Greg Sheridan and the Christian myth
In November last year, Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of The Australian – a newspaper for which I regularly write feature essays, opinio...
09
Mar
Think again about America’s decline and the emerging new order
This article is part of our 'Mulling over America' feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...
17
Jan
Paul Kingsnorth’s new religiousness
On Christmas Day, an essay appeared in the online magazine UnHerd under the title ‘Our Godless era is dead: A second religiousness i...
25
Dec
Marcus Aurelius and stoic politics
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) was one of the so-called Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire – and the last of them – and a stoic philo...
12
Nov
Philosophical fashions and conceptual progress
Many years ago, as an undergraduate student of philosophy, I was invited to participate in a special seminar for honours students conve...
27
Oct
Thinking clearly about the Gaza problem
Truth, an old saying has it, is the first casualty in war. Why would that be? Because the universal tendency of human beings to partial...