Articles By Zac Alstin

Happy Christmas...I mean, Holiday Season!

Zac Alstin

December 11, 2019

Kids and smartphones: weighing the pros and cons

Zac Alstin

December 09, 2019

Africa needs its own Early Childhood Education and Care

Zac Alstin

November 26, 2019

Why East Asia needs Confucian fundamentalists

Zac Alstin

November 22, 2019

10 Subversive jokes that could've landed you in an East German prison

Zac Alstin

November 15, 2019

Woke preschoolers: indoctrinating our youngest children

Zac Alstin

October 22, 2019

Climate children: encouraging idealism without fear and anger

Zac Alstin

June 18, 2019

Criminalising cowardice: the ethics of school shootings

Zac Alstin

June 13, 2019

The sacking of Israel Folau: can you see the good in it?

Zac Alstin

May 22, 2019

Is 'Avengers' America’s Iliad?

Zac Alstin

May 15, 2019

Aren’t we all a bunch of snowflakes?

Zac Alstin

May 09, 2019

Happy International Day, Batman!

Zac Alstin

May 02, 2019

Will comparative religion save the world?

Zac Alstin

April 04, 2019

Empty your cup

Zac Alstin

March 26, 2019

Thus spake Jordan Peterson

Zac Alstin

February 26, 2019

'Often in error, never in doubt': How the internet is driving the fractionalisation of society

Zac Alstin

October 08, 2018

Can we spot the wolves in sheep’s clothing?

Zac Alstin

September 06, 2018

Is it time to consider the lily?

Zac Alstin

August 28, 2018

3 parenting tips from a low-energy father

Zac Alstin

August 20, 2018

Books for the social media age II: An unlikely choice from the Beat Generation

Zac Alstin

June 22, 2018

Why you should watch Cobra Kai instead of The Last Jedi

Zac Alstin

May 09, 2018

Sackcloth and ashes on Valentine’s Day

Zac Alstin

February 13, 2018

The bioethics of tattoos

Zac Alstin

February 08, 2018

Cosmic Christmas symbolism in the sweltering Southern Hemisphere

Zac Alstin

December 08, 2017

Same-sex marriage and the service-provider state

Zac Alstin

December 01, 2017

God writes straight with crooked lines

Zac Alstin

November 17, 2017

American mass shootings: are more guns the answer?

Zac Alstin

November 10, 2017

Is Mark Zuckerberg the biggest dictator in the world?

Zac Alstin

November 01, 2017

Halloween and other nightmares

Zac Alstin

October 30, 2017

Are we too tolerant of sexual assault?

Zac Alstin

October 13, 2017

Addiction and pornography: rediscovering virtue in the internet age

Zac Alstin

September 28, 2017

How much should we hate our enemies?

Zac Alstin

August 14, 2017

Love and doubt: the central truth of existence

Zac Alstin

July 11, 2017

Vale Dr John Sarno: ‘America’s best doctor’

Zac Alstin

July 04, 2017

Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions

Zac Alstin

June 26, 2017

Why is losing weight so difficult?

Zac Alstin

May 23, 2017

Sick of fake news? How about a junk-knowledge diet!

Zac Alstin

March 20, 2017

Are fantasy stories worth telling?

Zac Alstin

February 28, 2017

Everyday heroes: the real-world meaning of our most popular stories

Zac Alstin

January 12, 2017

Drain the swamp: Trump and the mandate of heaven

Zac Alstin

November 11, 2016

How we vote: the difference temperament makes

Zac Alstin

November 02, 2016

Democracy and providence: does political participation trump religious faith?

Zac Alstin

October 10, 2016

The ancient Greeks knew what makes Donald Trump tick

Zac Alstin

July 27, 2016

Homophobia, masculinity, and violent young men

Zac Alstin

July 21, 2016

The new normal of Aussie politics

Zac Alstin

July 14, 2016

Racism and homophobia

Zac Alstin

July 05, 2016

Not your grandfather's transgenderism

Zac Alstin

June 29, 2016

Who owns the horror?

Zac Alstin

June 14, 2016

Why are humans more important than animals?

Zac Alstin

June 10, 2016

T comes right after LGB

Zac Alstin

June 08, 2016

Paypal's gay picnic threat: a symbolic masterpiece in disguise

Zac Alstin

May 26, 2016

Discerning the Donald

Zac Alstin

March 08, 2016

We are all rich men now

Zac Alstin

November 10, 2015

A new identity will not make you happy

Zac Alstin

October 29, 2015

Cynical and amoral: the dark side of the mindfulness fad

Zac Alstin

October 13, 2015

The burden of free speech

Zac Alstin

October 06, 2015

The limitations of a lustful life

Zac Alstin

September 24, 2015

Job insecurity

Zac Alstin

September 01, 2015

How to remember Hiroshima

Zac Alstin

August 06, 2015

Saturn devours his children

Zac Alstin

July 21, 2015

The password you can never change

Zac Alstin

July 14, 2015

Cognitive dissonance on a national scale

Zac Alstin

July 03, 2015

Cultural dysphoria

Zac Alstin

June 04, 2015

Life without indulgent eating

Zac Alstin

May 29, 2015

Is there a way to execute humanely?

Zac Alstin

May 21, 2015

The real price of cheap food

Zac Alstin

May 06, 2015

Why 'natural' is not a meaningless word

Zac Alstin

May 04, 2015

What's work for you?

Zac Alstin

April 30, 2015

Resurrecting old religions

Zac Alstin

April 08, 2015

The ultimate safeguard

Zac Alstin

March 27, 2015

How to win an internet argument

Zac Alstin

March 18, 2015

When is a war crime not a war crime?

Zac Alstin

March 10, 2015

The forgotten meaning of human nature

Zac Alstin

March 05, 2015

Yoga without ethics: just empty posturing?

Zac Alstin

March 05, 2015

Frozen berry health scare puts heat on Big Food

Zac Alstin

February 22, 2015

The downward spiral of romance

Zac Alstin

February 05, 2015

Islam and violence: how not to answer a question

Zac Alstin

January 30, 2015

A murderous blame game

Zac Alstin

January 23, 2015

Provocation is no defence for the Jihadi murderers

Zac Alstin

January 09, 2015

New You Resolution

Zac Alstin

January 01, 2015

Childhood 2.0 is a little buggy

Zac Alstin

December 05, 2014

Your money, or your life?

Zac Alstin

November 28, 2014

The awe-full truth of human dignity

Zac Alstin

November 13, 2014

I can’t handle being useful

Zac Alstin

November 10, 2014

‘White’ identity in a multicultural world

Zac Alstin

November 04, 2014

An intellectual journey: dodging the culture wars, thinking for myself

Zac Alstin

October 30, 2014

China's virtuous president

Zac Alstin

October 16, 2014

The critical challenge of gender equality

Zac Alstin

October 08, 2014

iWant! iWant! iWant!

Zac Alstin

October 01, 2014

Joan Rivers' final act

Zac Alstin

September 12, 2014

Vale, Robin Williams, Hollywood's melancholy funnyman

Zac Alstin

August 14, 2014

Finding a role for the foodie

Zac Alstin

July 01, 2014

Is "conscious uncoupling" really such a loopy idea?

Zac Alstin

April 15, 2014

Is it OK to be a bigot?

Zac Alstin

April 08, 2014

Compassionate or confusing? The Dalai Lama on same-sex marriage

Zac Alstin

March 11, 2014

Things you can learn from the zombie apocalypse

Zac Alstin

February 25, 2014

The paradox of a conservative revolution

Zac Alstin

January 14, 2014

No country for old homophobes

Zac Alstin

July 15, 2013

Necessary excuses

Zac Alstin

May 23, 2013

The genius of Chesterton

Zac Alstin

January 08, 2013

The cycle of fallen heroes

Zac Alstin

November 06, 2012

Misogyny for the politically disenchanted

Zac Alstin

November 02, 2012

Homophobia: what does it really mean?

Zac Alstin

September 28, 2012

Debunking the myth of the self-made man

Zac Alstin

August 21, 2012

This is not an article

Zac Alstin

July 16, 2012

The bald truth about p*rn

Zac Alstin

June 29, 2012

Who dares attack my Chesterton?

Zac Alstin

June 01, 2012

It’s only natural

Zac Alstin

May 22, 2012

Is it time to euthanase those Nazi arguments?

Zac Alstin

May 11, 2012

Playing the man, not the ball

Zac Alstin

April 26, 2012

Who's afraid of the slippery slope?

Zac Alstin

March 22, 2012

The new anti-heroes: Dirty Harry, News of the World and Lila Rose

Zac Alstin

March 09, 2012

God is dead! Can I have his stuff?

Zac Alstin

February 20, 2012

3 New Year’s resolutions (I’d like other people to follow)

Zac Alstin

January 06, 2012

Sages, straw dogs, and same-sex marriage

Zac Alstin

December 12, 2011

Who wants to live forever?

Zac Alstin

November 18, 2011

Statistically significant angels

Zac Alstin

November 11, 2011

The end of tolerance

Zac Alstin

October 07, 2011

Cold comfort for penguin lovers

Zac Alstin

September 16, 2011

Falling in love with love

Zac Alstin

September 03, 2011

Britain's deadbeatest Dad

Zac Alstin

August 19, 2011

The religious atheist

Zac Alstin

June 30, 2011

Asylum seekers: a considered proposal

Zac Alstin

June 24, 2011

Was bin Laden a criminal, a soldier or a pirate?

Zac Alstin

June 07, 2011

I plank, therefore I am

Zac Alstin

May 25, 2011

Have we evolved to argue?

Zac Alstin

May 17, 2011

A streetcar named moral confusion

Zac Alstin

May 10, 2011

Crazy for Osama

Zac Alstin

May 03, 2011

Was the tsunami the revenge of Gaia?

Zac Alstin

March 14, 2011

Is "Yuck!" a good enough reason?

Zac Alstin

February 24, 2011

"Why are you depressed?"

Zac Alstin

February 09, 2011

Obesity and the ethicist's diet

Zac Alstin

January 04, 2011

Whom can you trust?

Zac Alstin

December 07, 2010

Obama’s empathy problem

Zac Alstin

November 18, 2010

Defending children against eroticised adult culture

Zac Alstin

October 05, 2010

Reaping the whirlwind

Zac Alstin

September 10, 2010

Truman was right

Zac Alstin

August 20, 2010