History
Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 2)
Paul Monk
23/11/2024
This article is the second part in a two-part series. Read the first part here. Athenian democracy was well short ...
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Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 1)
Paul Monk
20/11/2024
This article is the first in a two-part series. That the liberal democracies are floundering has been widely observed. That’s ...
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How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership shaped America’s separation of church and state
Steven K. Green
01/07/2024
Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to the ...
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Why it’s important to deal with the dark history of witch-hunting
Brendan C. Walsh
01/05/2024
In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western ...
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Anzac Day: Misconceptions and the real meaning of commemoration
James Fodor
19/04/2024
In late October 1914, following a long period of rising tensions between the two nations, the Ottoman navy conducted a ...
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The dismissal: Truth at last
Geoffrey Barker
24/01/2024
The dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975 was the most devastating and potentially dangerous constitutional crisis in Australia’s ...
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Marcus Aurelius and stoic politics
Paul Monk
25/12/2023
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) was one of the so-called Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire – and the last ...
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Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began
Tilman Ruff
06/08/2023
The Oppenheimer film is a significant artistic work, and by all accounts – including of Kai Bird, the surviving author of the detailed biographical ...
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Reflecting on the Russian Revolution
Reg Naulty
31/03/2023
The Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky famously remarked that the great Russian humanist intelligentsia, who included Pushkin and Herzen, Tolstoy and ...
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Beethoven, music and human progress
Paul Monk
03/02/2023
One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into ...
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Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking
Robert Eaglestone
31/01/2023
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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The role of rituals in human history
Michelle Langley
30/12/2022
Each December, Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, among others, take over our thoughts and our wallets as we participate in ceremonies ...
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