11 Aug Feature series, Law & Politics Sotomayor’s dissent and the future of a republic 11/08/2024 By Paul Monk 0 comments This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ... Continue reading
14 Aug Feature series, Science & Health Reflections on the erasure of Hellenistic science 17/08/2023 By Paul Monk 0 comments This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the... Continue reading
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