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| Wednesday 1 October 2008 |
Kicking consumers
The Bailout Fallout: Drinking their one-dollar coffees, the patrons of a DC diner refused to believe that they’re to blame for the financial crisis.
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| Monday 1 September 2008 |
The Selection of Sarah: exciting or terrifying?
Guy Rundle reports from St Paul on the buzz about McCain’s promotion of creationist, gun-owner Sarah Palin.
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| Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
Obama’s Democrats: as Conventional as ever
Guy Rundle reports from Denver on why the party is ignoring the working class: anything else would mean backing up the rhetoric with real change.
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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
The myth of the ‘good war’ goes up in smoke
Nicholson Baker's historical montage has got many reviewers spitting blood, yet all he has done is remind us that the motives and behaviour of the Allies in the Second World War were often far from decent.
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| Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
How Hillary could split the Democrats in two
Clinton’s anti-elitist rhetoric won’t help her become president. But it could make Obama’s defeat at the hands of McCain more likely.
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| Friday 25 April 2008 |
Fascism: it ain’t what it used to be
Jonah Goldberg makes some salient points about the left’s authoritarian tendencies today — but his use of the ‘f-word’ is no more convincing than when it was used by Sixties dropouts.
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| Wednesday 16 April 2008 |
The faulty ‘2020’ vision of Australian liberals
The ‘national conversation’ organised by Kevin Rudd shows that Australian left-liberals have more faith in the state than the people.
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| Thursday 6 March 2008 |
The lingering death of American conservatism
In defining American conservatism against overblown enemies, William F Buckley Jr, who died last week, gave birth to a weak and disparate grouping.
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| Wednesday 6 February 2008 |
The search for a feelgood president
An Oz writer on the campaign trail watches Huckabee’s bass-playing, Obama’s mythmaking, and the retreat of all candidates into ‘fantasy politics’.
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| Friday 25 January 2008 |
Rehab: it’s not rock’n’roll
The Heroin Diaries, by a cleaned-up, self-deluded Nikki Sixx, is probably the last in the classic genre of the bad rock memoir. And it reminds us that early rock’n’rollers’ idea of freedom can’t be found in rehab.
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| Tuesday 27 November 2007 |
The Rudd to nowhere
What the victory of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party in Australia reveals about John Howard, the Culture Wars and the state of contemporary electoral politics.
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| Wednesday 20 June 2007 |
‘No stars’ for this unpalatable judgement
The Australian court that classified an unfavourable restaurant review as 'defamation' has dealt a blow to critical thinking.
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| Friday 1 June 2007 |
Big Donor: dismember me when I'm gone
Why did Jade Goody's mildly chauvinistic remarks about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty attract more opprobrium than a Dutch death lottery?
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| Thursday 24 May 2007 |
Jindabyne: a guilt-trip from Down Under
The latest big film from Australia wants to be a deep study of the country's racial politics, but it's just a shallow take on a classic short story.
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| Tuesday 20 March 2007 |
Black to the future
The Good German, a new film noir, shows that recycling old techniques passes for cinema experimentalism today.
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| Thursday 15 March 2007 |
Australians are uncouth? Rack off!
Last week’s TV column by Patrick West, in which he called Australians ‘white trash’, caused an uproar Down Under. An Aus journalist responds.
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| Monday 12 February 2007 |
Let the death camps die
Guy Rundle reports from former Nazi camps, where ever-more morbid attempts are being made to preserve buildings, ash pits, even human hair.
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| Monday 23 October 2006 |
You’ve been hoaxed
'Trauma memoirs' like James Frey's A Million Little Pieces may be written as true stories - but a suffering author is not the same as an authentic one.
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| Friday 18 August 2006 |
The myth of a united Israel
In their theorising about Israel's war in Lebanon, Western commentators missed an important point: Israel is a fractured and divided society.
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| Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
Euston, you have a problem
An Australian journalist asks why some signatories to the Euston Manifesto are discussing cricket, Dr Who, Sunday dinner – anything but Israel-Lebanon.
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