How Not to Think about China
In preparation for an upcoming event at the University of Sydney, I’ve been re-reading ex-diplomat Stefan Halper’s...
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Bob Dylan in Berlin
It was raw, convincing, a two-hour burst of unsmiling defiance, a croaky voice of the not-young,...
Read MoreConfucius Says…
A popular recent joke in China tells of two Communist Party members enjoying drinks in...
Read MoreBig Business and Democracy
‘No bourgeois, no democracy’ is a formula made famous during the 1960s by the American scholar Barrington...
Read MoreThe Brussels Summit
When future historians look back on the agreement forged in Brussels during the past several days...
Read MoreFareed Zakaria’s Dream
If there was a machine capable of detecting reticence and hostility towards democracy there’s no doubt...
Read MoreEurope: the Devil’s New Playground
Shortly after touching down in Berlin last week, I contact a friend who says she’s on...
Read MoreMurdoch’s appearance before the Leveson Inquiry
John Keane remark’s on Rupert Murdoch’s appearance before the Leveson Inquiry ABC 24, April 27, 2012 Watch the...
Read MoreRestorative Justice
Rethinking the history of the impact of representative democracy upon Indigenous peoples. Although the first Australian association...
Read MoreSilence, Power, Catastrophe
In The Fixed Period, the 19th-century English writer Anthony Trollope describes a university college where the...
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