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Simon Longstaff 25 Jan 2018

The debate about whether Australia Day should be celebrated on 26 January has turned into a contest between two rival accounts of history, a binary choice between two apparently incommensurate truths. MoreComments

Rabbi Raymond Apple 23 Jan 2018

If we ask what Jewish-Christian dialogue has achieved in its short life, can we really say, "How far we have got"? Must we sadly admit, "How little we have progressed"? MoreComments

Gemma McKinnon 23 Jan 2018

Is it morally wrong to celebrate Australia Day on 26 January? Without doubt. By choosing that particular date, you're valorising an invasion - the beginning of mass slaughter, dispossession, genocide and land theft. MoreComments

Peter Harrison 17 Jan 2018

The specific concept of "Western values" is not itself part of the tradition to which it putatively refers. In fact, no one thought there was such a thing as "Western values" until the middle of last century. MoreComments

Daniel Jose Camacho 15 Jan 2018

Despite being suppressed and domesticated, King's radical politics are more relevant than ever. It is long past time for his vision to experience a resurgence and an extension both within and beyond electoral politics. MoreComments

Ross Garnaut 15 Jan 2018

Will we have the policies that support the introduction of technology needed to achieve the rapid transformation of our economies to make economic growth consistent with stability in the climate? MoreComments

Susan Neiman 11 Jan 2018

Heroes remind us that life itself is larger than the dimensions we are urged to accept. If heroes do nothing but throw all their weight against the purveyors of resignation - seductive as any Siren - they do a great deal. MoreComments

Philip Jenkins 9 Jan 2018

Where in the world is more frightening than the South China Sea, or Syria, or North Korea? It has to be the Baltic. MoreComments

Justin Lee 5 Jan 2018

Hate, for alt-rightists, operates as a coping mechanism, a therapy that attempts to reconcile the individual's inner experience with the outer world. MoreComments

Big Idea 2 Jan 2018

Families have lived through a wave of revolutions in communist China and the legacy flows down the generations. Three authors talk about the cycle of openness and repression from the Cultural revolution to Tiananmen Square as… More

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The Least and the Lightest

Gideon Haigh

Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' is the self-amused, morally weightless salute of one hollow showman for another. Perhaps it is no better than Trump's cruel, mendacious and vituperative administration deserve.

MLK Now

Brandon Terry

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King's intellectual, ethical and political commitments.

Am I a Bad Feminist?

Margaret Atwood

The #MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. All too frequently, women and other sexual-abuse complainants couldn't get a fair hearing through institutions - including corporate structures - so they used a new tool: the internet. Stars fell from the skies. This has been very effective, and has been seen as a massive wake-up call. But what next? The legal system can be fixed, or our society could dispose of it. Institutions, corporations and workplaces can houseclean, or they can expect more stars to fall, and also a lot of asteroids.

Virtuous Evildoers

Gilbert Meilaender

The goods of life are not easily reconciled, and evil may be done with great dignity and appeal - done even bravely and sacrificially by those we can hardly help but admire.

African Deportations are Creating a Religious Controversy in Israel

Emma Green

Since its founding, Israel has had to negotiate its dual identity as a democracy and as the world's only Jewish-majority state. Netanyahu has long referred to the migrants as "infiltrators," claiming that they pose a threat to the state. And many of the migrants' neighbours in South Tel Aviv complain that the area has become overcrowded and crime-ridden since the newcomers arrived. Yet, advocates argue, Jewish identity should be built on values and ethics, not just membership in a tribe. What, they say, could be more Jewish - and more faithful to the history of Israel - than welcoming the stranger?

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