Law & Politics
Is Christianity indispensable to Western democracy? Looking at the claims of political Christianity’s defenders
Australia is becoming a less religious, and less Christian, country than it formerly was. As recently as 1971, more than ...
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The poverty of current affairs TV
In 1978, a Californian advertising executive with the evocative name of Jerry Mander published a book entitled Four Arguments for ...
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Far from “winning” the gender struggle, women face new threats
Almost a decade after Hanna Rosin, editor at The Atlantic, published her book, The End of Men, she was invited ...
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Can Australia be a credible voice for religious and belief rights internationally?
While Australian diplomacy claims to protect and promote universal human rights internationally, a credibility gap is becoming increasingly evident in regards to ...
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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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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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How violent extremists wield words as weapons
Words are powerful tools. Violent extremists know this well, often choosing their phrasing extremely carefully to build loyalty among their ...
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How authoritarians twist language into weapons
The world finds itself in a cultural setting in which large swathes of democratic countries place their faith in faux ...
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The world “does have intelligent design”, says Andrew Hastie
Ten years ago, during his first political campaign, Andrew Hastie refused to answer media questions about his religious views and ...
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Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis
We are living through an age of disruption. The post-war consensus that liberal democracy, free markets, and open societies were ...
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Political witch hunts and blacklists: The new era of McCarthyism
A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in ‘digital town squares’ across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk ...
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Non-religious Australians are now asking for a fair go
The imposition of daily acts of Christian worship in our parliaments and local governments has long been a divisive issue, ...
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