Tim Soutphommasane

Tim Soutphommasane is a philosopher and political theorist. He is a research fellow at Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies, fellow of St James Ethics Centre and senior project leader at Per Capita think tank. His books include All That's Left and Reclaiming Patriotism.

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'The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution' By Francis Fukuyama

Tim Soutphommasane

Most scholars have in them at best one major work. Had Francis Fukuyama ceased writing after The End of History and the Last Man, his...

The ethics of climate change. Peter Singer, Tim Soutphommasane

The ethics of climate change. Peter Singer, Tim Soutphommasane

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Tim Soutphommasane

Part 1 | Part 2Presenting at the Deakins 2010, ethical thinkers Peter Singer, Tim Soutphommasane and Kartikeya Sarabhai (India) speak about...

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Comment: New Labour & The ALP

Tim Soutphommasane

For much of the last three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Britain’s New Labour was experiencing its slow death under Gordon...

The future of social democracy in Australia (p2)

The future of social democracy in Australia (p2)

Tim Soutphommasane

Part 1 | Part 2 Two of Australia's leading left political philosophers discuss the theory of social democracy and its place in the...

Books

Progressively Liberal: Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

Tim Soutphommasane

Malcolm Fraser tells a story about his time as army minister in the 1960s administering conscription during the Vietnam War. In a hotel bar...

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Comment: The New Republic

Tim Soutphommasane

Many Australians will remember Jason Yat-sen Li from the 1999 referendum campaign, when he was a twenty-something lawyer and a leading...

Books

Feral Howl: Arundhati Roy's "Listening to Grasshoppers"

Tim Soutphommasane

As a schoolboy in Sydney, I found that my summertime lessons would inevitably be drowned out by the clicking of cicadas. Many find the...

Books

Democratic Hubris: John Keane's 'The Life and Death of Democracy'

Tim Soutphommasane

It has been a mixed year so far for democracy. There have been peaceful elections in India and Indonesia, the world’s largest and third...

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