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Letters to the Editor

Nudging us into a nuclear industry

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

Survival of the fit enough and lucky enough

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s masterful contribution to our understanding of evolution, was penned more than 150 years ago. ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

How analytic philosophers sought to slough off the dead weight of history

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. ...
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Science & Health

Reacting to pandemics

The New Testament (Matthew 11:29) describes the relationship we have – or should have – with Jesus as a kind ...
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Science & Health

The problem with institutional conscientious objection in our healthcare system

On the ABC’s Religion & Ethics website recently, Joanna Howe, a Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide Law ...
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Education

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) looks like it’s jettisoning the long-held ideal that schools are “universal, free and secular”. A draft ...
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