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Christian dominionism: Follow the money

Between theocracy and democracy

The hope for secularism

Are we exaggerating the extent of antisemitism?

Say your prayers

Our 2017 interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Philosophical fashions and conceptual progress

Directing expenditure to where it’s needed most for Indigenous Australia

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

Thinking clearly about the Gaza problem

How counsellors help children understand their worth

Better ways to close the health gap than the Voice

Pentecostalism: New, old and unchanging

The moral case for the Indigenous Voice

Inside the indoctrinated mind

Familiar words, familiar style

The Echidna Strategy’s prickly reality for liberal values

The new threat to freedom of expression

Non-overlapping magisteria: Why Gould got it wrong

Teaching science to children

Reflections on the erasure of Hellenistic science

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

Why the Army’s choice to serve God comes at a cost to the nation

The Voice: Analysing the official No case

How Queensland’s state schools remain ‘mission fields’ for ‘harvesting’

Chomsky’s take on the challenges of our time

Is labour productivity the problem?

Survival of the fit enough and lucky enough

Reacting to pandemics

The problem with institutional conscientious objection in our healthcare system

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate

AI and the problems of personification

How democracies survive

The impact and implications of large language models

The case for going nuclear

Key statements absent from policies for new student wellbeing program

Our female genital mutilation laws are broken

‘Holding the line’ on Religious Instruction for the Christian Right

Our duty to laugh in the face of tyrants

Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism

In the face of extremism, liberals must snap out of their complacency

Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism

Rationalists and circumcision

Reflecting on the Russian Revolution

Our parliament needs to become a more inclusive and welcoming place for all

The tyranny of story

How deregulation left central banks with few weapons

The future role of human judgement

The day I stood up to bullshit

Why I wrote a book on circumcision

The imperfect union of two presidents

How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny

Beethoven, music and human progress

In recognising all faiths and beliefs, we can show fairness and equity

The faithless in foxholes

The finest kind of democratic leader

The antidote to arrogance: How to be wrong the right way

George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex

The importance of being objective

Expert knowledge and scientific thinking under siege

Sing a song of sunshine – and beware