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12 Oct

Scenarios to jolt us awake

12/10/2026
By Paul Monk
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Annie Jacobsen is a bold investigative journalist and the author of a string of portentous books on the military and intelligence insti...

08 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth, evidence and controversy: Richard Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’ at 20

08/10/2026
By Jamie Roberts
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In my youth, somewhere in the late 1990s, when I was a goth or a punk or something, I had a t-shirt proclaiming, “Ignorance should not ...

04 Oct

Science & Health

What Darwin’s family tree reveals about his chronic illness

04/10/2026
By John Hayman
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Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist, suffered debilitating, relapsing illness for most of his adult life. Early symptoms of this illn...

10 Mar

History

The challenge of Chinese communist historiography

10/03/2026
By Paul Monk
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It is widely understood that the Chinese Communist Party exercises intense control over its own history and does what it can to impose ...

19 Feb

History

Thinking clearly about Iran

10/03/2026
By Paul Monk
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How are we to think rationally and clearly about the drama unfolding in Iran? As a veteran historian and analyst of international affai...

15 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

Steven Pinker’s insights on how ‘common knowledge’ shapes our individual lives and societies

15/10/2025
By Jamie Roberts
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I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans p...

10 Oct

History

Inquiry versus polemic in grappling with history and language

18/10/2025
By Paul Monk
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Suppose you were in an English language class and your teacher or professor insisted that the use of language in all old books, going b...

17 Sep

History

Blainey’s ‘quiet classic’ on war and peace

15/10/2025
By Paul Monk
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Geoffrey Blainey is 95 – a venerable age. He remains lucid and productive even so – rather like David Attenborough, who, at 99, has jus...

06 Feb

Ethics & Religion

Robert Harris, Edward Berger and the Vatican

15/10/2025
By Paul Monk
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Robert Harris is a gifted historical novelist, whose work spans millennia on topics from ancient Rome (Imperium, Pompeii, Dictator) to ...

04 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Hardaker’s take on the rise and fall of Hillsong and Houston

Hillsong was first formed in 1983 by Brian and Bobbie Houston as the “decidedly functional, even dowdy” The Hills Christian Life Centre...

13 Feb

Law & Politics

The imperfect union of two presidents

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Bide...

24 Dec

History

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What Is at Stake N...

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