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‘The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French’ By Francis Fukuyama
Culture
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 hugely influential book of 1992, he could have been content with having produced a magnum opus. In the years …
Progressively Liberal
Politics
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
New Labour & The ALP
Politics
For much of the last three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Britain’s New Labour was experiencing its slow death under Gordon Brown’s leadership. Few would have imagined anything other than David Cameron’s Tories winning this year’s …
The new republic
Politics
Many Australians will remember Jason Yat-sen Li from the 1999 referendum campaign, when he was a twenty-something lawyer and a leading advocate for the ‘yes’ camp. A Sydney-born Australian of Chinese heritage, the charismatic Li seemed to embody …
Feral howl
Society
Arundhati Roy’s ‘Listening to Grasshoppers’
Democratic hubris
Politics
John Keane’s ‘The Life and Death of Democracy’
