03 Feb History Beethoven, music and human progress 05/02/2023 By Paul Monk 0 comments One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into Melbourne’s central busine...Continue reading
07 Jul Law & Politics Reason and unreason in the critique of Western civilisation 13/02/2023 By Paul Monk 0 comments Douglas Murray is a wonderfully free spirit who lucidly tackles the manias of political correctness with erudition, panache and limpid ...Continue reading
28 Dec Feature series Reason in Western civilisation 07/09/2022 By Paul Monk 0 comments For years now, I have heard people speak sceptically, even dismissively, about ‘Western logic’ or ‘Cartesian rationalism’, as if the il...Continue reading
03 Mar Ethics & Religion Rethinking the human: On being accountable in the Anthropocene 09/09/2022 By Paul Monk 0 comments 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...Continue reading