Reg Naulty - Rationale Magazine

13 Jul

Chomsky’s take on the challenges of our time

13/07/2023
By Reg Naulty
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In Noam Chomsky’s new hard-hitting book, his position is always clear, incisive and challenging. Illegitimate Authority: Facing ...

31 Mar

History

Reflecting on the Russian Revolution

31/03/2023
By Reg Naulty
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The Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky famously remarked that the great Russian humanist intelligentsia, who included Pushkin and Her...

13 Feb

Law & Politics

The imperfect union of two presidents

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Bide...

24 Dec

History

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What Is at Stake N...

09 Apr

Law & Politics

A review: The struggle for India’s soul

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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What precipitated Shashi Tharoor’s new book, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy, is the path t...

25 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

A review of Eckhart Tolle’s ‘A New Earth’

22/07/2022
By Reg Naulty
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The philosophical/spiritual writer Eckhart Tolle has had success beyond most writers’ wildest dreams. His first book, The Power of N...

05 Nov

History

Tolstoy’s last years

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
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Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? and I Cannot B...

15 Jun

History

Memories of the factory: The extraordinary war stories of some ‘new Australians’

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
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It was Litchfield Engineering Company, Croyden Park Extension, then an outer suburb of Adelaide, in 1960. My father, who was in charge ...

Posts by Reg Naulty

About Reg Naulty

Chomsky’s take on the challenges of our time

Reflecting on the Russian Revolution

The imperfect union of two presidents

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

A review: The struggle for India’s soul

A review of Eckhart Tolle’s ‘A New Earth’

Tolstoy’s last years

Memories of the factory: The extraordinary war stories of some ‘new Australians’