How do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society?
Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond to technological innovations and climate change ......
The latest hilarious collection of Rowan Dean’s weekly satirical columns in the AFR Weekend poking fun at the craziness of political correctness gone mad, cancel culture and woke identity politics in Australia’s modern political world from 2017 to the present, including the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, the rise of ScoMo, Biden, Covid, China, ......
Blending historical and geographical analysis, this is a study of the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the US. It focuses on how political dissent gains meaning and momentum and is regulated in the real, physical spaces of the city.
Why did so many traditionally "blue" communities break for Donald Trump in 2016? Will they do so again in 2020? Looking for answers, Muravchik and Shields lived in three such "flipped" blue communities, finding that these voters still like the Democratic Party, but its not the party many of this books readers will recognize.
National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution
Addresses how national security law can and should be applied to artificial intelligence, which enables a wide range of decisions and actions not contemplated by current law. James Baker adopts a realistic approach in assessing how the law can be used, or even misused, to regulate this new technology.
The only book on the notorious Mohamed Haneef case, by the one journalist who stayed on it from day one. Exclusive interviews with Dr Haneef, Commissioner Keelty, ex-Attorney General Ruddock, and Federal Police leaks. Something unsettling for everyone in the miscarriage that started the Howard government's slide.
What is free speech? Why aren't we told about matters of public importance? In this collection lawyers, journalists and commentators probe all sides of a sensitive controversy. They compare repressive and liberal regimes in other regions, and point to alarming surprises at home.
The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our Past
Recent years in America have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalized, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction, claiming that pulling down public statues is a negation of an entire cultural heritage. For others, statue-smashing is justified ......
Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
This second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century.
