Democracy - Rationale Magazine

24 Oct

Waleed Aly’s post-liberal ‘monsters’

Liberalism is in trouble. Its underlying ideas still have some popular resonance, but they attract little support in mainstream politic...

28 Jun

Law & Politics

Is Christianity indispensable to Western democracy? Looking at the claims of political Christianity’s defenders

01/07/2026
By Adam Wakeling
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Australia is becoming a less religious, and less Christian, country than it formerly was. As recently as 1971, more than four-fi...

30 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Habermas’ hope for a better future is more important than ever

30/03/2026
By Susan Smith
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It is impossible to capture seven decades of formidable intellect, wrapped into some 14,000 books and articles, in less than a t...

29 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

How Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism

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

21 Dec

Law & Politics

Aristotle’s wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality

21/12/2025
By Matthe Sharpe
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If Plato was the first Western political philosopher, Aristotle was the first political scientist in today’s sense. Plato's Republic, f...

29 Sep

Law & Politics

Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis

30/09/2025
By Alan Gamlen
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We are living through an age of disruption. The post-war consensus that liberal democracy, free markets, and open societies were the “o...

21 Jul

Law & Politics

Democracy and the legitimacy of political power

22/07/2025
By John Wright
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Imagine that one day your neighbour knocks on your door and proceeds to tell you what to do. They might tell you how you can, or cannot...

08 Jul

Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

08/07/2025
By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

Behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

24/03/2025
By Ralph Hertwig
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered i...

19 Feb

Law & Politics

Defending fragile democracies against the march of authoritarianism

Democracy is difficult. Democracy is fragile. Democracy, in its most inclusive modus operandi, pushes the boundaries too far for many p...

23 Nov

History

Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 2)

23/11/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is the second part in a two-part series. Read the first part here. Athenian democracy was well short of an idea...

20 Nov

History

Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 1)

20/11/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is the first in a two-part series. That the liberal democracies are floundering has been widely observed. That’s not to...

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