Military Non-Humanitarianism
The folly and criminality of the invasion of Iraq can be conclusively seen in the fact that no good outcome is now possible — there are merely a range of undesirable alternatives from which one must...
View ArticleAtkins in the super-size era
Despite repeated suggestions that it raises levels of heart disease, the cult movement that is the Atkins diet rolls on. Devotees of the low-carbohydrate regime can now eat at Burger King, which...
View ArticlePrometheus Unhinged
Prior to the invasion of Iraq, noted humanitarian Rupert Murdoch suggested that one fantastic result of the war would be oil at $20 a barrel. Quite aside from being about as bare-knuckled an expression...
View ArticleUnholy Family
Two men walk into a bar. You would think the first man would warn the second. This old, bad joke is appropriate to what many feel is rapidly becoming the old, bad joke of Australian political life. One...
View ArticleAfter Progress? The Four Questions of Global Politics
First Act Midway through one of Barry Cohen’s earlier, funnier books he reminisces on a bizarre, fruitless issue that consumed the Whitlam Government at one time: whether or not to put some money into...
View ArticleThe Cultural Contradictions of Christian Fundamentalism
Writing in the months before he was executed by the Nazis for his part in the plot to kill Hitler, the priest and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer noted that he was finding it increasingly difficult to...
View ArticleThe Great American Emptiness
They came down Washington St, they came down Broadway. They came across Steel Bridge, anarchaic industrial-era elevator bridge, black from the decades. The came down both banks of the river, landscaped...
View ArticleA New Left Forming?
In the wake of the global financial crisis and broad acceptance of the reality of climate change, small groups everywhere are asking questions about the politics of the future, especially what a left...
View ArticleLiving in the Sky
Perhaps there are more ironic places to see The Tree of Life than the Langham Centre in Hong Kong, but it would take some searching to find them. The skyscraper/mall/hotel combination is forty stories...
View ArticleThe Triumph of Reason? by Guy Rundle
Coming out of the DC subway at Federal Triangle on election night, I checked the news headlines on my phone and cursed. Half-past nine and it might be all over. Having been en route to a media centre...
View ArticleGlorious Progress of Dragon Emperor Kevin In Storming Heaven!: Guy Rundle
Kevin Rudd had a transformative vision of how Australians should live. So why did Labor fail so badly?
View ArticleArena Fundraising Dinner, with Dennis Altman and Guy Rundle: ‘The American...
Arena Fundraising Dinner: Dennis Altman and Guy Rundle on ‘The American political landscape and presidential elections’. Saturday 25 June at Charcoal Lane. Bookings essential. Places limited.
View ArticleDiversity and Empire, by Guy Rundle
With Trump setting the agenda, Clinton retools 'diversity'
View ArticleThe Bolshevik Century, by Guy Rundle
When 1 January came round this year and, through bleary hangover, 2017 was glimpsed, I cannot have been the only person on the Left—still, however complicatedly—to have expressed a wishful prayer that...
View ArticleBig Little Britain, by Guy Rundle
her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering —Cecil Spring Rice, ‘I Vow To Thee My Country’ The famous British newspaper headline of the 1910s, ‘fog in channel; continent remains isolated’,...
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