Western civilisation - Rationale Magazine

23 Nov

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

This article is the first in a two-part series. That the liberal democracies are floundering has been widely observed. That’s not to...

11 Aug

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

14 Aug

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...

03 Feb

One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into Melbourne’s central busine...

07 Jul

Douglas Murray is a wonderfully free spirit who lucidly tackles the manias of political correctness with erudition, panache and limpid ...

28 Dec

For years now, I have heard people speak sceptically, even dismissively, about ‘Western logic’ or ‘Cartesian rationalism’, as if the il...

03 Mar

In a quiet corner of my library is a book called Man and the Ecosphere. It's a set of essays from Scientific American, edited by Paul R...

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