Because our lives are increasingly tailor-made, we are constantly seeking ways of distinguishing ourselves from others. What is being lost through it all is our sense of a humanity whose inherent vuln

Are periodic bouts of withdrawal from lifes urgent demands and heated debates necessary to regain a sense of our shared humanity, and to renew the commitments that sustain the moral life?This episo

Poised as we are at the brink of our great annual festival of shopping, wrapping, giving and exchanging, we can sometimes forget just how ethically complicated the act of gift-giving is.In fact, t

Democracy is in retreat, authoritarianism on the rise. But this has happened before. So how did big thinkers of the past respond to the threats to democracy, and what can we learn from them?Scott St

In December 1974, The Godfather, Part II premiered in New York City. Following the unlikely success and unexpected acclaim that his 1972 adaptation of Mario Puzos bestselling novel received, Franci

Since the start of November, the Australian government has made two significant announcements aimed at preventing the harms that social media platforms are causing to the mental health of adolescents

Most of us are aware that the emergence of social media platforms and their omnipresence in our lives have fractured public discourse and undermined the conditions of democratic deliberation.But we

Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative. Such is theassessment of Peter Wehner a Republican strategist and former adviser to President George W. Bush, and an outspoken critic of

One of the defining features of the last century is the fact that evil has become more vivid to our imaginations and common in our language than good. Stan Grant joins Waleed Aly and Scott Stephen

There is something undeniably satisfying about revenge. When we feel we have been aggrieved, harmed or humiliated, it is natural to want payback. In ancient Greece, to inflict such an injury was conce