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Are we living on borrowed time? From climate change to the Murdoch empire, from refugees to WikiLeaks -Robert Manne applies his brilliant mind to the issues and people that shape our world. This provocative and informative book includes essays on Donald Trump's links to Russia, Malcolm Turnbull's leadership, the ideas driving Islamic State, and Jonathan Franzen's views on climate activism. In the title essay, Manne shares a life-altering personal story that is frank, moving and unforgettable. Robert Manne is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. His books include The Petrov Affair, The Culture of Forgetting, Left, Right, Left, Making Trouble and The Mind of the Islamic State. He has written three Quarterly Essays and is a regular contributor to the Monthly and the Guardian. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The table of contents groups the essays under the headings and I’ve tagged them with their initials:
Climate Change (CC)
The Murdoch Empire (TME)
Australian Politics (AP)
Australia and Asylum Seekers (A&AS)
Australian History (AH)
The United States (TUS)
The Islamic State (TIS) and
The University (TU)
The sources of the essays are:
The Monthly: ‘Dark Victory’ 2012 (CC); ‘Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything’ 2015; ‘Rupert Murdoch’s Politics’ 2013 (TME); ‘Malcolm Turnbull, the Promise’ 2012 (AP); ‘Malcolm Turnbull, a Brief Lament’ 2017 (AP); ‘Tragedy of Errors’ 2013 (A&AS); ‘Burchett and the KGB’ 2013 (AH); ‘While Rivers Run Red’ 2016 (AH); ‘Julian Assange: Alex Gibney’ 2013 (TUS); ‘The Snowden Files’ 2014 (TUS); ‘Julian Assange: Laura Poitras 2017 (TUS); ‘The Mind of the Islamic State 2016 (TIS);
The Guardian: ‘Explaining our Failure’ 2013 (CC); Jonathan Franzen, This Changes Nothing 2015 (CC); ‘On Refugees, Both the Left and Right are Wrong’ 2014 (A&AS); ‘The Sorry History of Australia’s Apology’ 2013 (AH);
The Monthly Blog:
‘Laudato Si, a Political Reading’ 2015 (CC); ‘Andrew Bolt, “Name Ten” ‘ 2011 (TME); ‘The Second Rudd Government?’ 2012 (AP); ‘Labour’s Long Goodbye’ 2012 (AP); ‘There is a Solution to Australia’s Asylum-Seeker Problem’2016 (A&AS);
Quarterly Essay (or its correspondence): ‘Bad News’, 2011 (TME); ‘Noel Pearson and Indigenous Constitutional Recognition’ 2014 (AH)
The Good Weekend:
‘Malcolm Fraser, an Unlikely Radical’ 2014 (AP);
The Conversation:
‘How We Came to Be So Cruel’ 2017 (A&AS); ‘The University Experience – Then and Now’ 2012 (TU)
Weekend Australian:
‘Donald Trump’s Victory’ 2016 (TUS);
‘The Muscovian Candidate?’ 2017 (TUS)
So as you can see, unless you subscribe to this range of publications, the book is good value, and still very relevant even though some of the essays are more than five years old.
What I like about Manne’s essays is that he doesn’t just describe current affairs, he analyses them with piercing clarity. He also looks at issues from surprising points of view. I admit that my heart sank when I saw that the first five essays were about climate change: I have read so much about this and it’s profoundly depressing because we seem to be stuck in a rut that we can’t escape. But the essays turned out not to reproduce the same arguments but to analyse how the nonsense of denialism was achieved, how writers like Franzen are compromised, and – who knew? – that the Pope offers hope because he gets it, he really does:
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/04/30/on-borrowed-time-by-robert-manne-bookreview/ ( )