Author Glenn McLaren

Is there one thing that is common to all of our major global crises; crises as diverse as sexual harassment and assault, mass immigration and globalization, technologies advancing beyond our control and global...

My daughter and I have been watching a US TV series over the summer called ‘The Good Place’. We enjoy it and find it one of the funniest and cleverest comedies we have seen for some time. What makes it...

This article is for those who, like me, despair over the performance of our global leaders who seem intent on accelerating us towards self-destruction. I hope to give some guidance as to how we can judge them...

Early in 2018 I was searching YouTube for Stephen Colbert’s latest monologue on the Trump administration and I discovered a lecture on problems with postmodernism and neo-Marxism in universities. Having...

There is much talk at the moment about the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and what the implications of this will be for the future of humanity. Those such as Ray Kurzweil can’t...

Recently Australia celebrated Science Week when all around the nation people celebrated the discipline's wondrous achievements. As usual, there was a particular focus on science in schools with the theme this...

In his 1995 book After the Future, Russian philosopher and Culturologist, Mikhail Epstein, discusses the tense relationship between civilization and culture. Drawing upon previous theorists of civilization,...