Dogmatic Atheism or the Return of the Religious…
John Gray provocatively begins his interesting article "The Curious Dogmatism of Atheists" (reprinted in Friday's Fin) with the assertion that - A revival of atheism...
“I am twenty-four and I lost my leg and I don’t know why”
Or so said Second Lieutenant Melissa Stockwell on her return to the States after a routine trip in a Humvee from the Green Zone in...
Blinded by the Moon?
Or is Wicca a legitimate religion? Sophie's stirred Troppo commenters up into a debate questioning whether membership of the Church of Satan ought to be...
Self Interest and the Social Bond
Wendy provided me with some food for thought the other day when she serendipitously drew my attention via her post on a light switch puzzle...
Dispatch from Johburg
As a bred (if not born) Queenslander with a long memory of the Joh years, I can never quite recapture the feeling of relaxation that...
Manne-ing the Barricades?
Robert Manne is an interesting thinker. His personal trajectory from anti-communist intellectual and ideological conservative to social democrat has been well documented in his own...