The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sieghart
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Category: Essays
You probably, in the abstract, believe in equality between men and women, and accept that women are as intelligent and competent as men. But do you actually take women as seriously? Do you listen as attentively to what they say? Do you read the books they write? For a lot of us, the answers to these que ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
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Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically? The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses? This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine exami ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
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Category: Essays
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand h ...Show more
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall; Douglas Abrams
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Global Icons Series
A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope. The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe ...Show more
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Few journalists exemplify the creed 'without fear or favour'; like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest stylists and most curious journalists. Architecture and airline food. Depression and doodling. Goya and Gross ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
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Category: Essays
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
American Kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the greatest money-laundering scheme in history by Casey Michel
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: near fine
An explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore banking systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt re ...Show more
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Christopher A. Bail
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A revealing look at how user behaviour is powering deep social divisions online — and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use socia ...Show more
The Strange Death of the Israeli Left - Jewish Quarterly 246 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the demise of Israel's left, which dominated the nation's politics for decades but is now weak, fragmented and shrinking. In a compelling essay, journalist and political commentator Anshel Pfeffer explores the left's failure to articulate a persuasive vision o ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
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Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
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Category: Essays
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more