In a book review a decade ago, I mocked academics’ penchant for running experiments with “mock juries” — people told to pretend to be jurors at...
When a negotiation consists of one side asking for money and the other offering it, there’s not really much doubt who has the whip hand. And...
We call a book good if it entertains or educates us. But when it deal with such a well-covered topic as “the glory that was Rome,”...
When the second world war began, Max Dupain and photographer Olive Cotton had been married for five months and he was thriving personally and professionally. Around...
In the old Chief Secretary’s Building, a sandstone relic of colonial New South Wales not far from Circular Quay, an episode in the state’s more recent...
Deng Xiaoping arrived first. Striding into a reception room of the Great Hall of the People beside Tiananmen Square, the Chinese leader paused to greet the...
Clare Wight’s latest book, Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, is the third volume of her history of Australian democracy. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which came...
It takes some hutzpah to set about remaking The Day of the Jackal. The fact that it has taken almost fifty years for anyone to attempt...
Whoever decided to hold the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro at the same time as the UN COP29 climate conference in Baku clearly had a...
One day in March 2008 Rupert Murdoch was sitting in a plane on the tarmac in Florida when news broke that New York governor Eliot Spitzer...