In March 2010, John Keane was in Slovenia to give a lecture at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Ljubljana (24 March) on the topic of Mass Media and Democracy. During his staying he gave two interviews:...
Read MoreThis reply was published in the March 2010 issue of The Monthly John Keane's comments are rich in a variety of points, all meritingresponse, but I shall focus on their main thrust only in the short space offered me here. I am...
Read MoreJohn Keane was guest of Steve Austin's Evenings on ABC Radio Queensland- 03 March 2010, 9:15 PM. Discussing his book The Life and Death of Democracy ...
Read MoreIn February 2010, John Keane delivered lectures and gave interviews about The Life and Death of Democracy in Spain. There was special interest in the birthplace of modern parliaments, Leon. Click on the links below to read a selection of...
Read MoreA Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Value PDF Bloomsbury, London, Berlin and New York, 2009 ; ISBN 978 1 4088 0242 7 This book review appeared in The Monthly (February 2010) Review's abstract: The latest book of essays by the English liberal philosopher A.C....
Read MoreExtract from the concluding chapter for David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2010). The subject of war and democracy, and their potential symbiosis, has recently been brought to life by the fact that virtually all...
Read MoreIn 1945, following several decades that saw most experiments in democratisation fail, there were only a dozen democracies left on the face of the earth. Since then, despite many ups and downs, democracy has bounced back from near oblivion to...
Read MoreBY JOHN KEANE Griffith Review: Edition 28 Still the Lucky Country? (Review's website here); an edited extract from this essay was published by the Sydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010, Page: 9 The Lucky Country by Donald Horne is among my treasured Australian books. When first...
Read MoreKeynote public lecture at the 2010 Journalism Education Association of Australia Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 25th November, 2010. Another version of this lecture was presented on October 6, 2010 as a part of The Sydney Ideas lecture series. Its audio form...
Read MoreThe genetics of the thoughts of freedom of expression in modern Britain By Xiaokun WU Shanghai University About the author Foreword by John Keane: PDF (English) PDF (Chinese) Abstract: English Chinese Catalogue Chinese A part of the introduction in Chinese...
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