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Culture March 19, 2022
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning
In The Reds (1998), the first part of his history of the Communist Party of Australia, the late Stuart Macintyre commented: “With its passing, communism has become almost unintelligible.” Twenty-four years later The Party, the posthumously …
Culture November 27, 2021
Not Playing the Game
“If you go back to World War I … all elite sportsmen used to volunteer because they thought it was their duty.” So said Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith in 2011, when the NRL employed him to promote its Anzac Cup. In Not Playing the Game: Sport and …
Culture January 29, 2022
The Shortest History of Democracy
“Many [people],” John Keane tells us, “think democracy is fucked.” That’s the context for Keane’s fascinating little book: a history – as per its title – but also a defence of democracy. He begins by busting some myths. The traditional …
Culture November 06, 2021
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-click America
In Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-click America, Alec MacGillis connects the so-called “Everything store” to, well, everything. In his introduction, he describes how “the cataclysmic year of 2016” convinced him that Amazon provided …
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