Freedom and Flourishing

  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...

  Lachlan Macquarie was governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. At that time, the colony comprised much of the Australian mainland (k...

  Self-reflection tells you that you are a conscious being that is aware of its own existence in the real world. You are aware of having a m...

                                                    Vietnamese boat people arriving in Australia in 1976 In the Western liberal democracie...

  It seems common for consciousness to be viewed either as an inexplicable mystery or as something we will only be able to comprehend if adv...

In one of the most popular articles on my blog I speculated about the meaning of the epitaph on W B Yeats tombstone: “Cast a cold Ey...

If your employer sacks you for breaching your employment conditions by publishing material on social media, I don’t think you can clai...

Ruins of the forecourt of the temple of Apollo at Delphi where   “Know Thyself” was inscribed. When I started blogging, about ...

It seems obvious that there is a narcissism epidemic in many countries: people taking selfies everywhere we look; adolescents saying tha...

This post has nothing to do with the influence of political party machines on current election campaigns. As some readers will already ...