BY 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...
Read MorePublished in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009....
Read MoreAn interview with John Keane in The Courier, Dundee, Scotland. 2 December 2009 Click here to read in PDF format...
Read MoreFinal Public Lecture, Tom Paine 200 Celebrations, Thetford, 7 November 2009, Norfolk Summary Written during a period when the gap between rich and poor was fast widening in post-Jacobin France, Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1795/6)...
Read MoreThis essay in Spanish appeared in the Revista Encuentros Uruguayos Año II, Número 2, Noviembre 2009, pp. 208-220 In English the text was published in James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter...
Read MoreDemocracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
Read MoreWe fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what's so good about democracy? In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of...
Read MoreIn this conversation with Lindsay Tanner MP, John Keane addresses some of the misunderstandings and misconceptions of democracy and looks to its future, in Australia and abroad. Melbourne Writers Festival, August 2009 See the original link here...
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