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ARTS AND CULTURE

Freud's last session
- Neil Jeyasingam
- 18 April 2024
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Freud’s Last Session pits the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud against Christian apologist and author C.S. Lewis, a powerful concept, given the sheer cultural heft of the two historical figures.
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RELIGION

Best of 2023: Celebrating 100 years of Teilhard de Chardin's 'Mass on the World'
- Michael McGirr
- 11 January 2024
In the realm of intellectual giants, Einstein's acclaim often overshadows luminaries like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A century after the publication of 'The Mass on the World', this Jesuit priest's reflections remain challenging, spotlighting his quest for a singular reality binding all existence.
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RELIGION

Fire on earth: A centenary of Teilhard de Chardin's essay 'The Mass on the World'
- Michael McGirr
- 21 August 2023
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In the realm of intellectual giants, Einstein's acclaim often overshadows luminaries like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A century after the publication of 'The Mass on the World', this Jesuit priest's reflections remain challenging, spotlighting his quest for a singular reality binding all existence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The book corner: The Matter of Everything and the Premonitions Bureau
- Juliette Hughes
- 28 June 2022
1 Comment
How do we know that what we call knowledge is knowledge? How do we know that we know? The two books I have been reading here are both about kinds of knowing. Suzie Sheehy is a particle physicist from my old stamping ground, Melbourne University. Sheehy’s story is of passionate hunters for nothing less than the meaning of everything.
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ECONOMICS

Until debt do us part
- David James
- 20 October 2020
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The global economy was already teetering on the edge of such a debt crisis before the coronavirus hit. The economic shutdowns have accelerated the damage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The sunroom monk's cell
- Rodney Wetherell
- 01 September 2020
5 Comments
While I was musing I heard scratching noises, faint, bothersome, at the mind’s edge, rather like mice nibbling and scuttling, or polter-somethings working through the ceiling. Then my nostrils tingled — hints of a smell, or one remembered or imagined.
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AUSTRALIA

Art, economics, science, and all that jazz
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 February 2019
9 Comments
The Five Quintets is a long, conversational poem of almost 350 pages. In an age that focuses on detail, its topic is vast: the nature of Western modernity and its future. In a secular age its perspective is unobtrusively but deeply religious. It is therefore unlikely to make the best-sellers list. But it is an important and rewarding work.
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ECONOMICS

Compound interest is the root of banks' evil
- David James
- 04 December 2018
7 Comments
The problem goes much deeper than a few crooked operatives and it will not be fixed by changing the corporate 'culture'. The fundamental evil is the arithmetic of compound interest. Interest on debt rises exponentially, while economic activity is linear. That means that sooner or later those in a weaker position are unable to pay.
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INTERNATIONAL

Stephen Hawking as saint and celebrity
- Binoy Kampmark
- 15 March 2018
22 Comments
The rush to pay tribute to the cosmological colossus had an air of reflex about it. People paid respects, but many were not entirely sure why. He'd be missed, but in what way? Such is the way of celebrity, even those rare intellectual ones who burst the barrier of mass marketing. They become symbols in their time, ciphers of an age.
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ENVIRONMENT

Building ecological justice in organisations
- Bronwyn Lay
- 16 February 2018
4 Comments
A holistic, culture-sensitive ecological justice has its roots in the feelings, actions and awareness of each person and their relationships: human and otherwise. Organisations, a manifestation of our collective culture, must engage with the ecological challenges and not leave it to the individual, privatised space.
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AUSTRALIA

Airing abuse allegations serves public interest
- Kate Galloway
- 16 January 2018
15 Comments
Many claim it is inappropriate for media to report these stories. The concept of justice at law depends upon systems designed to weigh evidence, affording the parties the opportunity to tell their stories. But what if these systems are inadequate to expose the abuses of power evident in the recent disclosures?
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INTERNATIONAL

Best of 2017: Memories of assault last a lifetime
- Megan Graham
- 10 January 2018
Most women know and have experienced the fact that there are a substantial number of men in society who are willing to use their power, physical or otherwise, to get what they want sexually from women. Which is why so many of us, myself included, have responded to the Weinstein story with sadness, but not surprise.
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Keywords: Einstein