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THE PUSH FOR war in Iraq went in to overdrive in September 2002, six months before the first American...

By Peter Manning

IF YOU'RE LOOKING for an example of how a classic literary text can speak to the present, you could...

By Nicholas Jose

LIKE TINY TERRORISTS, a slew of toxic memories from the last twenty years swarm through my mind when considering...

By Julian Meyrick

AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT PAYS its tributes in dollars. It has award ceremonies but we know that Oscars lead to box...

By Anthony May

These Arts, in their highest province, are addressed ... to the desires of the mind ... impatient of being...

By Frank Moorhouse

IN SEPTEMBER 2008, I was in London during the Olympics and the English press was rampant with joy that...

RUPERT MURDOCH, HIS father, Keith – and in prospect his sons – are best understood as freelance official propagandists....

By Bruce Page

Shortlisted, 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize, The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public DebateON A JULY evening...

By Helen O’Neil

NEARLY TWO HUNDRED and fifty years ago Dr Samuel Johnson – the essayist, critic, poet and lexicographer – became...

By Julianne Schultz

WE CLING TO the legitimate expectation that the noble exchange of information between elected representatives and the nation's media...

By Nick Richardson

'WHAT DO WE want?' ‘The right to march!'‘When do we want it?' ‘Now!' ‘Joh must go!'King George Square is...

By Edwina Shaw

WE LOVE A good hoax. When it was revealed that Keith Windschuttle, editor of Quadrant, had accepted a bogus article...

By Brent Balinski