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Shore School, an elite Anglican boys-only school in Sydney, has hit the news for very wrong reasons recently. The Year 12 tradition of ‘muck-up day’...

Hypocrisy is something most humans have in common, but willful and systematic hypocrisy is still shocking. This is especially true, of course, when...

UK novelist Susan Ertz famously claimed that “millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon”....

Atlassian entrepreneur Scott Farquhar was the subject of a recent Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery program. He and his business partner Mike...

Andrew Walker reflects on evolution and the genesis of human values. I find it interesting that any talk of evolution seems to have a human value...

By Dallas Elvery Responses to the global Covid-19 pandemic were ambiguous at first. It was extremely hard to grasp what magnitude of pandemic...

The ‘Karens’ of the world have been in the spotlight recently. This stereotype of the entitled, strident middle-aged white woman is to some extent a...

SOFiA member Bill Hendry reflects on conscience and morality. I'm always interested in the origins and development of social cohesion, especially...

We should feel able to critique anything in our society. This is presumably what some people mean by ‘free speech’. The manner in which it’s done,...

In a recent email discussion on the issue of justly recognising Aboriginal people in Australia, one SOFiA member had this to say: I see that...

Even atheists rely on faith, says Barney Zwartz. Zwartz makes a compelling argument that faith is “an inescapable part of rational everyday life –...

Recent studies in both rodents and humans suggest there may be significant benefits to be had in using tiny amounts of psychedelic drugs to treat...