Adrian Rosenfeldt

Dr Adrian Rosenfeldt teaches at Melbourne University. He is a journalist, public speaker and the author of The God Debaters: New Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium (2022).

Adrian's recent articles

Led Zeppelin, my band that never ‘made it’, and the lost art of failure

Led Zeppelin, my band that never ‘made it’, and the lost art of failure

Our culture treats success as virtue and failure as personal flaw. Older traditions – from Greek tragedy to Christian thought – saw failure as meaningful. Recovering that wisdom may be essential to living with dignity in an age of burnout.

Net Zero and the metaphysics of anxiety in Australia

Net Zero and the metaphysics of anxiety in Australia

Net zero is not simply an environmental target. It has become a psychological and cultural anchor in a society that feels increasingly unstable.