by Barbara Lepani | Aug 18, 2026 | Our Collective
THE LIBERAL HUMANISM DREAM Unless liberal humanism can re-assert its own vision of the ‘good life’: fairness, freedom, irreverence and the adventure of living with difference, it will remain stunned by the appeal of authoritarian governments like Xi’s China and Modi’s...
by Barbara Lepani | Jul 20, 2026 | Our Collective
When the wisdom insights of the ancients are meeting the possibilities and challenges of our uncertain times, we can experience our individual freedoms and belonging by riding the waves of relational reciprocity like a big wave surfer. INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM We long to...
by Barbara Lepani | Jul 12, 2026 | Our Collective
ODYSSEY Based on Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus’ ten years of wandering after the fall of Troy, the dictionary defines an odyssey as a long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience. Critics are raving about Christopher Nolan’s new three hour film...
by Barbara Lepani | Jul 5, 2026 | Our Collective
WHAT DOES BELONGING MEAN? I am provoked by the current political debate about immigration and multiculturalism, and the creeping anxiety about what constantly evolving agentic AI might mean for our humanness in a political ecosystem that bridges the carbon/silicon...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 27, 2026 | Our Collective
THE NEW DRIVER IN THE SEAT Many years ago, now it seems, I was invited by my friend Rhonda Galbally to join her in Melbourne to help establish the Commission for the Future, to which she had been appointed as its inaugural Director. Under the chairmanship of cultural...
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