Philosophy & Psychology - Rationale Magazine

Aaron Walton 07/08/2026

In his 2023 bestseller, Determined, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argued that the interaction of biology and environment leaves no room for free ...

Alexander Howard 15/07/2026

June 17, 1969. Prominent left-wing German political philosopher Herbert Marcuse is delivering a lecture at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome. Marcuse ...

David Magson 31/05/2026

I can still picture it: a page from the illustrated encyclopedia my parents gave me as a child. A man ...

Steven Roberts 28/05/2026

It’s pretty likely that you’ve now heard or seen the term ‘manosphere’, in the news, in your social media, on ...

Julian Koplin 18/05/2026

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Dawkins did not express ...

Susan Smith 30/03/2026

It is impossible to capture seven decades of formidable intellect, wrapped into some 14,000 books and articles, in less than a ...

Kenneth Leonardo 17/03/2026

Today’s youth cherish ‘authenticity’, but is it a virtue? According to a report from Ernst & Young, more than 9 in ...

Robert Colls 12/02/2026

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune ...

Christopher Finlay 29/12/2025

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

Elizabeth Dangerfield 17/12/2025

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

Eli Elster 05/12/2025

On 22 February 2020, ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket to the Mojave Desert and launched himself into the ...

Jack Dikian 31/10/2025

Remember the time when claiming to have been abducted by aliens was all the rage among the hillbillies, crackpots and ...