Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC

Salvado's letters: Compass Summer Series

18/12/2016, 6.30pm

Expectation

18/12/2016, 10:00pm

Church and class, Rohingya refugees, animal ethics

7/12/2016, 17:30 pm

Singing the Divine

18/12/2016, 5.30am

A Feast of Carols (Advent 4) *RPT*

18/12/2016, 11.30am

Seasons of Birth

18/12/2016, 6.05pm

A year's wrap, movies and Archbishop Mannix

18/12/2016, 10:00pm

Samuel Moyn

For those restive in the cage of liberal internationalism, the keys to the exits are not hard to find. We should be glad when Trump, moving chaotically in every direction, puts a dent in the right bars, while seeking Democratic victory the next time around. And Democrats needn't wait until the next campaign to debate their future direction.

Slavoj Zizek

The most depressing aspect of the post-electoral period in the U.S. is not the measures announced by the President-elect but the way the bulk of the Democratic Party is reacting to its historic defeat. Its supporters oscillate between two extremes: the horror at the Big Bad Wolf called Trump and the obverse of this panic and fascination - the renormalization of the situation, the idea that nothing extraordinary happened, that it is just another reversal in the normal exchange of Republican and Democratic presidents.

John Milbank

The populist voter insurgencies of 2016 are complex, but one important aspect of them is the rejection of a seamless liberal order and worldview. Despite its unbearable claims to be the only possible worldview, liberalism has been rejected because it does not work for the majority of people. And just as liberal economics are now being questioned, so are liberalism's cultural and ethical assumptions.