Posts by Paul Monk
12
Apr
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...
31
Aug
The Echidna Strategy’s prickly reality for liberal values
At the ALP national conference earlier this month, Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for International Development...
14
Aug
Reflections on the erasure of Hellenistic science
This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...
18
Apr
Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism
On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair of hands at the OECD, i...
03
Feb
Beethoven, music and human progress
One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into Melbourne’s central busine...
20
Jan
The finest kind of democratic leader
Word has spread. After five and a half years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down by 7 February.
She ha...