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I suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread

I suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread

By tigtog on January 12, 2012

Most of what we’re seeing in the MSM is just presidential horse-race reporting, of course. Why don’t we see if we can do better?

Posted in Elections, Sociology, USA | Tagged Culture Wars, roundtable | 63 Responses

Tone

Tone

By Anna Winter on November 2, 2011

I really wanted to write a good review of this book, but this was not the book to do it. Abbott is a conviction politician, no matter how angry certain commenter may be when I say that. He wants power, yes, and he is ruthless in his pursuit of it. But he wants power for a reason, not just for its own sake. I just hope that the debate this book sparked gets people talking about what those reasons are.

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Women | Tagged Culture Wars, gender & equality, ideology, politics&govt, Susan Mitchell, Tony Abbott, Writings | 100 Responses

Bolt found guilty under Racial Discrimination Act

Bolt found guilty under Racial Discrimination Act

By Robert Merkel on September 28, 2011

Age article here.. While the specifics of the legalities are different, my view remains the same as in 2010: Bolt is a an ugly blot on the media landscape, but that doesn’t mean that anything he wrote in those articles [...]

Posted in Law, Race | Tagged andrew bolt, Culture Wars, freedom of speech, Racial Discrimination Act | 541 Responses

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

By tigtog on September 26, 2011

There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:

Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, roundtable, social justice | 77 Responses

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

By tigtog on September 2, 2011

There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:

Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, social justice | 5 Responses

A Word about Welfare

A Word about Welfare

By Guest Poster on August 22, 2011

Am I the only person who is thoroughly sick of the neoliberals and right-wingers carping on about the evils of the welfare state? It was, after all, they who invented it.

Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged Culture Wars, ideology, jobs, neoliberal economics, politics&govt, unemployment, unemployment benefits, welfare policy, welfare reform | 49 Responses

Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2011

Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.

Posted in Culture, Featured, Politics, Race, Sociology | Tagged #boganmovies, #tightsarenotpants, Australian politics, Bogans, Chavs, civil disorder, class, cultural sociology, Culture, Culture Wars, David Nichols, distinction, humour, ideology, left flank, Liz_beths, london burning, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, Owen Jones, Pauline Hanson, Things Bogans Like, twitter | 211 Responses

Quick link: Sparrow on the cultural contradictions of the right

Quick link: Sparrow on the cultural contradictions of the right

By Kim on August 19, 2011

I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum.

Posted in Featured, Politics | Tagged Culture Wars, ideology, Jeff Sparrow, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, roundtable | 38 Responses

Don’t accept the premise

Don’t accept the premise

By Anna Winter on August 14, 2011

SlutWalk seeks to address the idea that a woman’s behaviour in one sphere of life should have no bearing on how she is judged in other spheres

Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, Language, Perth, Sexuality, Women | Tagged Crime, Culture Wars, gender & equality, Law, prostitution, sex, slutwalk | 40 Responses

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

What We Didn’t Blog Lately

By tigtog on August 14, 2011

There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:

Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, social justice | 5 Responses

Brendan O’Neill’s revealing moment #Qanda #Notw

Brendan O’Neill’s revealing moment #Qanda #Notw

By Kim on August 2, 2011

In his appearance on Q&A last night, editor of Spiked and libertarian gadfly Brendan O’Neill said more than he ought to have. O’Neill is apparently an alumnus of some Trotskyist group or other, and like other leftie turned righties (or [...]

Posted in Culture, Featured, Film, TV, Video etc, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged brendan o'neill, Christopher Pearson, Culture Wars, journalism, Kevin Rudd, media inquiry, news of the world, Notw, Q&A, Qanda | 212 Responses

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