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EMERGING FROM THE subway I joined the crowds of Lower Manhattan, anxious about my first day on the job....

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL crisis or GFC, as it is affectionately referred to in discussions taking place in the boardrooms...

By Kylie Charlton

THE IDEA OF globalisation never enjoyed popular support in developed nations and for that reason it will probably become...

By Chris Zappone

‘VIVA RAUL! VIVA Cuba! Viva la Revolución!' I awoke abruptly, stumbled over bottles at my feet and leaned over...

By Jorge Sotirios

FOR THE FIRST in history, a communist country is in a position to bring down global capitalism. The Chinese...

By Michael Wesley

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL scientist Ronald Inglehart argues that ‘the basic value priorities of western publics' shift in affluent times...

By Paul D Williams

'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principal.– Benjamin Franklin FOR A...

By Ryan Heath

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!– Samuel Beckett, Endgame Above all, the bourgeoisie produces its own...

By Tom Morton

NEARLY FIFTY YEARS ago I walked into the Dickensian editorial offices of The Age in Collins Street, Melbourne, to start a...

By Geoffrey Barker

WHEN THE DEEPEST economic crisis of the past fifty years finally ends, a changed world will be left in...

I RECENTLY PARACHUTED into the crucible of the American policymaking debate when I was invited to present alongside Robert...

By Christopher Joye

Shortlisted, 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Essay Advancing Public DebateAt particular times a great deal of stupid people have...

By Gideon Haigh