That Liability, Democracy, by Alison Caddick
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What will happen when it is fully revealed in the operation of the corporate state that the needs of the people are not its concern?
Trump: Logician to Rhetorician, by Jon Altman
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Trump’s message is to make America great again. The means to do this, according to him, is to revisit the twentieth-century industrial capitalism that made America ‘great’ before. It is the legacy of this American Dream of bloated materialism and waste that is now choking the planet.
The Maker Movement, by Susie Elliott and Mark Richardson
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DIY culture in a time of hyper-detachment
Latest comment: Really interesting piece! Wish you'd included the citations for the external texts/comments you mention,...
Donald Trump’s Conservatism, by Geoffrey Robinson
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Trump’s success lies in the politics of the personal.
Latest comment: Policy-wise, Trump is all over the place like a headless chook: a result more likely of deliberate calculation...
Global Avarice, by Alison Caddick
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If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century form, digitised and ultra-globalised, break asunder the assumptions and ethics of a given world?
Liberal Tax Dilemma a Sign of the Times
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As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he is not finding life all that easy.. Being popular without actual policy had only a short term prospect, and most actual policies that are briefly floated turn out to be fraught one way or another. The most exciting of times are hardly straight-forward.
Thatcher’s ‘Miracles’ Live On
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With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.
Shifting Ground by Alison Caddick
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Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping …