Where are we going as a society? And will you be happy when we get there? Steve McAlpine is here to help you answer those questions. If a Delorean time machine pulled up in front of your house - Back To The Future style - and someone offered to show you what the future would be like, would you be content with what you found? And if not, what could you do to change it? Thinking this through is what Steve McAlpine calls Delorean Philosophy. Steve McAlpine is a well-known social commentator, re ...
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House Beautiful, O at Home, Town&Country and Veranda invited four preeminent designers to envision living well while living green in The Laurel, a new 31-story, LEED-certified, limestone-clad tower at 400 East 67th Street in New York City.
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In 1964, Sam Cooke famously sang this about the direction of the world; It's been a long A long time coming, but I know A change gonna come Oh yes, it will Well, that change is heard. The way we now communicate has changed forever with the advent of social media. With this change has come new challenges; we are more polarised than ever before, and …
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What if the purpose of marriage is to make us better? What if personal relational choice is a bit of a lie? For many, a committed marriage may seem “old school”. What many people expect from relationships is satisfaction and freedom. So it’s paradoxical then, that once again young people seem to be partnering younger and getting married younger. Co…
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In a special Christmas episode, Steve takes some time to reflect on how Christmas - an ancient celebration - is changing as fast as the culture itself. The commercialism and pageantry of Christmas has sucked meaning from this important celebration. The earliest Christmas memories of ordinary people can be lost in this meaningless procession. But ar…
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In the run up to Christmas, Steve McAlpine looks dubiously at the West's repeated calls for 'peace on earth'. Could peace - at least as far as the West is concerned - remain beyond reach because of the direction our culture wars have taken? If calls for tolerance are now viewed suspiciously as a fig leaves for oppressive powers, so much so that we …
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What word do you associate with "masculinity"? Guesses are, 'toxic' is high on the list. With so many "damaged men" portrayed in our literature - especially in schools - what hope can young boys in the global west have of finding a good role model? Perhaps it's time we broadened what the typical "man" looked like. Only when we do that will sayings …
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However bad you think it is, it seems the younger generation thinks it's even worse. How about these figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as reported in The Australian newspaper: "Just under 40 per cent of 16-24 year-old Australians, 1.1 million people, reported having a mental disorder in 2020-21, That’s far higher than the overall pr…
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Never mind gender identity. The new trend is 'reversion' - a 'return' to the Islamic faith. A growing movement of young women are espousing the Quran, wearing the hijab, and calling on other young women across the West to do the same. Is it a social media storm in a teacup? Statistics suggest it's definitely something to consider. The simple hashta…
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Is choosing to be alone the "safe" option? The show "Apartment Therapy" explores. But there's a strange quirk - almost all people live alone: and they see this as the "self-crafted" pinnacle of their lives. More people are alone now than ever before. One-seventh of all Americans live by themselves. The UK has similar numbers. This is a global Weste…
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The Beatles have delivered a new single some 62 years after their first one - and some 22 and 43 years respectively since the deaths of two of their members, George Harrison and John Lennon. The song, Now and Then, was written by John Lennon and was on tape with him singing over piano. But as a pre-release mini-documentary explained, until recently…
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There's been a lot of death in the news recently - but one made the front pages around the world, and generated hundreds of column inches in newspapers around the world. It was the death of a friend - Matthew Perry The Star of the smash-hit sitcom Friends passed away at just 54 years old, found drowned in his hot tub following a suspected heart att…
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In the wake of the horrors of the recent Israel-Hamas conflict, Steve ponders the deep divisions such wars reveal in our own society. The West, he observes, has a fascination with conflict. After all, it took the recent conflict in the Middle East to wipe battlefield reports of Eastern Europe off the front pages of newspapers around the world. The …
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Welcome to season 2 of Delorean Philosophy. On Saturday, 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about changing the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. The referendum did not pass. In this episode, Steve McAlpine takes stock of this outcom…
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What I’m reading this week #4 - Dodsworth & O’Farrell
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What I’m reading this week #3 - Tyson, Henderson, Bono (still), Dodsworth & school (!)
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What I’m reading this week #2 - Perry, Suttle, Bono & Rowling
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What I’m reading this week #1 - CS Lewis & Stephen McAlpine
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join me as I take a brief look at a couple of things I've been reading this weekBởi Tim Goodall
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Steve McAlpine takes a look at our trend towards conspiracy theories and wonders where it will take us in the coming year. 2022's word of the year was 'gaslighting' and it seems we are set up for a darker shade of deceit in 2023 now that everyone is increasingly committed to only searching for the news they want to hear. The death of six people in …
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If Christmas isn’t pagan now, it soon will be
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Steve McAlpine pulls up a chair to Christmas and asks if the increasingly secular scene we're looking at is one we'll be happy with in years to come. Steve believes Christmas is becoming like so much of the other stuff that Christianity gave to the world - advances that many in the West think sprang up from nowhere. The idea seems to be that if we …
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Steve McAlpine addresses the Western trend away from the Christian faith, evidenced by disturbing statistics from leading countries, and asks, "What will faith look like for future monarchs?" Much ink was spilled a couple of decades ago when King Charles III (then the Prince of Wales) stated that he would prefer his title to be 'defender of faiths'…
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Steve McAlpine considers the near-universal agreement that Andrew Tate is not a suitable role model for young men, but poses the question, 'Where to from here?' Who are the role models who show what healthy masculinity is supposed to be like? And if we’re not sure, then there’s little chance the next generation of men is going to be either. Many of…
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Steve McAlpine says the media-fuelled controversy surrounding Qatar, the host-nation of the World Cup reveals a hint of neo-colonialism in the way the West treats nations that don't agree with it. There are more than two football sides on the pitch these days. There are also opposing sides in another way. Two ways – at least two ways – of looking a…
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Steve McAlpine looks at the apocalyptic angst that is engulfing younger generations and asks if there is no off-tap to their earth-shaking fears. Those whose early memories are of the twin towers falling are experiencing not simply a climate crisis but a crisis climate. Crisis abounds. The end has seemed nigh for some time - for all of their lives …
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Steve McAlpine looks into a brewing crisis at the juncture of health care and euthanasia legislation. Stories emerging from Canada demonstrate that people with chronic illness or pain are choosing to end their lives not because they want to die but because it is too expensive to live. With countries like the Netherlands ever widening the door to as…
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Steve McAlpine asks where our increasing preference for two-person families is taking us? Not only are one in four Australian households child-free in 2022, but it's predicted that between 2023 and 2029 the number of couples living without children will overtake the number living with kids. This is NOT a podcast about couples who are unable to have…
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Steve McAlpine takes a look beneath the surface of the heavy seas that are swamping Western governments and asks whether or not we have bigger things to fear than political instability. Our political turmoils are the tip of deeper cultural churning. The West is balkanising. We are fracturing, not along ethnic lines but along cultural ones. No one i…
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'You do you' is the mantra of western society. The technical term is expressive individualism – the almost sacred right of every person to find out what aids their flourishing and to do that, even if it comes at the expense of other people. It’s a project seemingly full of promise. Full of personal growth. And it’s built on the philosophical assump…
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Steve McAlpine introduces us to ‘The Sexular Age’ - one in which sexual rights trump religious rights because they’re seen to be more core to what it is to be human. Spring-boarding off a controversial football sacking in Australia, Steve shows how restrictive sexual rights have become. Individual expressions of belief that don't celebrate someone'…
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Steve McAlpine draws our attention to the wider implications of a data hack that's exposed the personal information of 40% of Australia's citizens. The attack on the data vaults of Australian telco Optus seems alarming, but a far greater amount of data is being released daily - willingly - by the digital citizens of the West. It's already being 'ha…
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Steve McAlpine looks at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as a metaphor for a much bigger change in society. The death of the Queen was supposed to be the final nail in the coffin of a public acknowledgement of something transcendent, a God who orders the world. But instead what we’re finding is a longing for something more - something more than a …
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Steve McAlpine suggests that your future perspective on sex will have a lot to do with who you think won the sexual revolution. Is masculinity - and femininity - to be defined by the Andrew Tates of this world? Or will the reactionary blowback against such cancelled individuals have the greater say? Steve says that both sides have lost in the war t…
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Steve postulates that there are two models of work being offered for your consideration - the drudgery of Fred Flintstone and the relaxed atmosphere of George Jetson. But neither offers a place to rest your soul. And in a world where corporations are seeking to own as much of you as possible, all the time, we would do well to consider where meaning…
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John Dickson, the sovereign of the Undeceptions Network, introduces listeners to the latest addition to this growing territory. Meet Steve McAlpine - social commentator, theologian, author and futurist. With the help of a bit of mental time travel, Steve's weekly show will look at where our world is headed, ask if we like what we see, and suggest w…
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House Beautiful Magazine: The Sensuous New York City Apartment
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Susan Ferrier of McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors together with House Beautiful, designed this urban roost, for a couple in their early 40s from Atlanta in mind. Susan created a calming space featuring soothing color with versatile functionality. Visit DesignerVisionsOnline.com for more.Bởi House Beautiful
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O at Home Magazine: The Minimalist Apartment
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Darryl Carter designed a spare yet well-appointed home for cultured and worldly empty nesters. Carter channeled the couple's love for travel and their inexhaustible taste for literature and created a calm retreat within the urban jungle. Visit DesignerVisionsOnline.com for more.Bởi O at Home
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Veranda Magazine: The Luxurious Retreat Apartment
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Renowned designer Charlotte Moss, together with Veranda, created an idyllic sanctuary for a couple who have just moved to New York City from Italy. A home of splendid contrasts, the apartment blends the Old World of Italy with the modern elegance of New York. Visit DesignerVisionsOnline.com for more.…
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Town&Country: The Cosmopolitan Apartment
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Town&Country with esteemed New York City designer and architect Stephen Miller Siegel to envision the home of a woman who has just sold her downtown loft and is starting a new chapter in life. Cultured and well-traveled, she's made the apartment a reflection of her many facets: cosmopolitan curiosity, warmth and a commitment to quality. Visit Desig…
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