Robert Manne | The Monthly

An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne

Apologetics and Hypocrisy

By Robert Manne

As those who follow ideological politics in Australia are aware, it is one of Gerard Henderson's many unpleasant habits to engage his enemies in legalistic email exchanges, usually based on a petty grievance about something they have said or written about him, and then, after their patience has been exhausted, to publish the exchanges without permission in his in-house magazine, the grandly t

Clive Hamilton’s ‘The Freedom Paradox’

In Search of Essence

By Pete Hay

Keith Windschuttle and Robert Edgerton: a comparison of texts

By Robert Manne

The Official History

Australia

By John Hirst

Howard adopted narrative history as part of his political program in a speech on Australia Day 2006, when he attacked the current practice of history teaching in schools. He wanted students to be offered a "structured narrative" instead of "a fragmented stew of themes and issues", and for Australia's "objective record of achievement" to be acknowledged inste

'Quadrant' at 50

The Usual Suspects

By Martin Krygier

Research Funding: The New Censorship

The Nelson Touch

By Gideon Haigh

Come only a little closer and the events loom far larger. For the last year, this apparent reopening of the History Wars across a broader front has been the number one topic of university hallway gossip. To use the expression of historian Stuart Macintyre, Nel