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22 Feb

Three reasons why Australia is unlikely to follow Trump’s anti-trans campaign

22/02/2025
By Paula Gerber
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Many people’s heads are spinning at the rapid rate that Donald Trump has been signing executive orders since becoming president – 70 in...

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...

14 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

Can reason survive in a sea of emotion?

We are facing the growing challenge of how to respond incisively and effectively to curb the movements away from rational thought and t...

12 Nov

Law & Politics

The white God problem in politics

As ‘ex-vangelicals’ around the world deconstruct the faith of their formative years, one topic repeatedly comes up – that of white GOP ...

07 Sep

Letters to the Editor

Charity for the rich

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11 Aug

Feature series, Law & Politics

Sotomayor’s dissent and the future of a republic

11/08/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

17 Jul

Law & Politics

Thomas Matthew Crooks was wrong to pull the trigger, but right to be afraid of Trump

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

09 Mar

Feature series, Law & Politics

Think again about America’s decline and the emerging new order

10/03/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our 'Mulling over America' feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

01 Mar

Feature series, Law & Politics

The dubious day of the demagogue

09/03/2024
By Geoffrey Barker
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This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

12 Feb

Feature series, Law & Politics

It’s a lose, lose, lose situation for Trump’s ‘Divided States of America’

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

30 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

30/10/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
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The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise over...

17 Feb

Law & Politics

The spread of QAnon beyond the United States

17/02/2023
By Robert Dover
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The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22 per cent o...

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