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Recently, I finished reading Peter Wohlleben's excellent The Hidden Life of Trees. If you haven't read it yet, I cannot recommend it...

Feeling like you belong can be hard. But for us it is simple.

During the Cold War, Soviet aggression against Berlin and West Germany was discouraged by the stationing of hundreds of thousands of...

How often have you heard someone say, "That's not how it should be", or "They should do this or that"? Hidden in these commonplace…

What are Rights? Like Hobbes we believe we are born with complete liberty. This natural right to do as we please is limited by mutual...

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? So tired and hurt that we just want to crawl away and give up. So, what do we do?

Thi story touched me in a way that only those rare, genuinely great books can touch you. On finishing the book, I spent hours just thinking

I have watched the protests over the last few days in Melbourne with mounting anger and frustration. I am normally pro-police and pro-vac...

What constitutes a religion, and are they different from a philosophical system or folk superstition? We argue that it is personal...

Temperance or moderation in action is essential to both living well, developing wisdom and achieving our purpose in life.

Giving and receiving gifts can be wonderful, but the unscrupulous can also use them to trap the unwary.

Waking up sucks, or that's what I used to think. I've found the secret to waking up not only easier but happier as well. Want to know how?

Why is patience a virtue, and why do we all need it? Today we discuss one of the hardest virtues to master patience.

Should vaccines be compulsory? We take a look at the arguments against this infringement of liberty and propose alternatives.

Is it moral to kill during war, and what if any limitations does morality provide to the infliction of harm in war? In part 5, we seek to...

We waste so much of the little time we have being frustrated by the things we can't change. What would happen if instead...

We like all animals can only survive by eating other organisms be they plants or animals. This begs the question is it right to kill to eat?

Would you choose to live in an artificial paradise instead of the real world? The answer to this question depends of if pleasure is the...

When is euthanasia morally permissible? Does the calculation change if the person wants to die or does not?