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Rationale’s top reads of 2025

At the end of each year, we bring you the top articles that have captivated our members and readers the ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

How Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism

Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) rocketed when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election. Nearly ...
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Law & Politics

Aristotle’s wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality

If Plato was the first Western political philosopher, Aristotle was the first political scientist in today’s sense. Plato’s Republic, for ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Is empathy rational?

To me, empathy is being able to imagine, understand, and feel what it is like to be in another person’s ...
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Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson. Published 13 December 2025.
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Law & Politics

Simplistic and impractical: The Albanese government’s social media ban

The federal government’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 will today take effect, restricting Australian teens under 16 ...
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