Archived publication for 2008
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The Stalin enigma
John Roskam reviews Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War and George Kennan: A Study of Character.
Ilf and Petrov's excellent adventure
Chris Berg reviews Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. In 1931, some 10,000 American tourists travelled to the Soviet Union in order to see what the great Soviet Experiment could offer their depression ravaged country. But the tourist traffic...
Intolerance as ideology
Richard Allsop reviews Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness.
A disappointing cool down
Jennifer Marohasy reviews Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.
The four ways of reading
Louis Staley reviews How to Read the Bible.
Doctrines come cheap
Andrew Kemp reviews The Shock Doctrine.
What 'fascist mob'? Overland and the IPA
Opposing government interference in the economy and society is hardly support for ‘fascism'. An attack on the Institute of Public Affairs in the latest edition of Overland by Shane Cahill shows just how far the socialist literary magazine...
Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian movies
‘There is, of course, every reason to view the next century with fear,' wrote a New York Times film reviewer in 1976 after having watched the Charlton Heston vehicle Soylent Green. Smug pessimism of this type is hardly unusual in political...