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Ethics & Religion

How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny

I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as ...
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Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is ...
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History

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 ...
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History

Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or ‘the age’, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down ...
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Science & Health

Success without substance

New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel doesn’t ...
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Law & Politics

In recognising all faiths and beliefs, we can show fairness and equity

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Fraser Coast Regional Council on 25 February 2023. ...
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