People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure. They are too invested in the principles of the global multilateral regime, too desperate not to give succour to climate deniers and UN critics, too frightened that voters and businesses will stop believing in
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that rarely gives us breathing space or the respite of distance. It plunges us headlong
Under Donald Trump, the United States no longer operates as a serious nation. Being serious about power and interests should be the simple first step of any nation, especially a superpower. A serious nation carefully calculates its power, weighs interests, judges its international course, and builds a sturdy policy to
Throughout my career as a general practitioner and therapist, the doctor–patient relationship has been a source of both anxiety and immense satisfaction. And when I forayed into fiction writing, my first novel explored this very thing, albeit from the point of view of a doctor in psychological distress. Over the
Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy” and “1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store.” Meanwhile,
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too tendentious. It brings into the narrative not only the big Wall Street bankers and speculators
Albania is one of those Balkan countries too easily misunderstood, overlooked or stereotyped, with a history most conveniently described as “complicated.” One person who has helped the wider world get a better sense of its recent past is Albanian-born-and-raised writer Leah Ypi, a professor of political theory based at the prestigious
Donald Trump always demands public adulation, and he probably feels that it should be peaking now. He’s realised such long-time conservative dreams as damaging America’s social safety net and cementing a grossly unequal tax code. He’s bombed Iran with no immediate repercussions, even if it was more of a glancing
Drusilla Modjeska’s new book A Woman’s Eye, Her Art opens with a young German woman screaming “Let it be. There is no other way” at her mother from an omnibus. It is 1899, and the woman is Paula Becker (later Paula Modersohn-Becker), the book’s inspiration and the focus of the
Back in December 2009, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of his party was disposed of over climate change policy. Or was it? Deep down, his demise was driven by terrible opinion polls that put the federal Coalition way, way behind the Rudd government. The Liberal party-room would probably have tolerated his insistence
When Josephine Baker’s ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on 30 November 2021 many French people were surprised. Why would an American-born performer, known mainly for her energetic performances in the newly adopted music halls of 1920s Paris, take her place among the nation’s “great men”? Baker was
For a man widely considered the pre-eminent American conservative of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley was something of a paradox. To begin with, he was a zealot for freedom who distrusted the masses and their ability to govern themselves; an American isolationist who befriended and supported imperialist presidents; a
People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure. They are too invested in the principles of the global multilateral regime, too desperate not to give succour to climate deniers and UN critics, too frightened that voters and businesses will stop believing in
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that rarely gives us breathing space or the respite of distance. It plunges us headlong
Under Donald Trump, the United States no longer operates as a serious nation. Being serious about power and interests should be the simple first step of any nation, especially a superpower. A serious nation carefully calculates its power, weighs interests, judges its international course, and builds a sturdy policy to
Throughout my career as a general practitioner and therapist, the doctor–patient relationship has been a source of both anxiety and immense satisfaction. And when I forayed into fiction writing, my first novel explored this very thing, albeit from the point of view of a doctor in psychological distress. Over the
Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy” and “1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store.” Meanwhile,
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too tendentious. It brings into the narrative not only the big Wall Street bankers and speculators
Albania is one of those Balkan countries too easily misunderstood, overlooked or stereotyped, with a history most conveniently described as “complicated.” One person who has helped the wider world get a better sense of its recent past is Albanian-born-and-raised writer Leah Ypi, a professor of political theory based at the prestigious
Donald Trump always demands public adulation, and he probably feels that it should be peaking now. He’s realised such long-time conservative dreams as damaging America’s social safety net and cementing a grossly unequal tax code. He’s bombed Iran with no immediate repercussions, even if it was more of a glancing
Drusilla Modjeska’s new book A Woman’s Eye, Her Art opens with a young German woman screaming “Let it be. There is no other way” at her mother from an omnibus. It is 1899, and the woman is Paula Becker (later Paula Modersohn-Becker), the book’s inspiration and the focus of the
Back in December 2009, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of his party was disposed of over climate change policy. Or was it? Deep down, his demise was driven by terrible opinion polls that put the federal Coalition way, way behind the Rudd government. The Liberal party-room would probably have tolerated his insistence
When Josephine Baker’s ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on 30 November 2021 many French people were surprised. Why would an American-born performer, known mainly for her energetic performances in the newly adopted music halls of 1920s Paris, take her place among the nation’s “great men”? Baker was
For a man widely considered the pre-eminent American conservative of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley was something of a paradox. To begin with, he was a zealot for freedom who distrusted the masses and their ability to govern themselves; an American isolationist who befriended and supported imperialist presidents; a
