Search Results: Manhattan
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 September 2010
1 Comment
The financial crisis threatens to engulf them. But Money Never Sleeps is less interested in financial wheeling and dealing than the ways in which the lunges and plunges of the market impact upon the characters' lives and relationships.
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INTERNATIONAL
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 03 February 2010
6 Comments
Just as Brits were more absorbed by Byron's life than his work, and Australians were absorbed by Shane Warne's antics more than his artistry, J. D. Salinger grew more famous for retreating from public life, than for his masterpieces.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 11 June 2009
12 Comments
Thomas Berry (1914-2009), Catholicism's most significant thinker in ecological theology, argued that religion had failed to provide a way of making sense of the cosmos. Christians oppose homicide, but have no morality to deal with the killing of the planet.
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ECONOMICS
- Jim McDermott
- 20 October 2008
6 Comments
As I walk the streets of Manhattan, things seem much the same as
always. Yet newspapers are peppered with references to the
market 'cratering', a term that conjures the desolate landscape of the moon. A friend suggested another interpretation: 'A crater is what's left after a massive explosion.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2008
In 1974 French acrobat Philippe Petit balanced mortality and destiny on a wire between New York City's Twin Towers. This documentary imbues Petit's dizzying, existential quest with the dramatic tension of a bank heist.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 22 August 2007
6 Comments
While this election is still there to be won or lost, Labor is rightfully the hot favourite. But changes of government are rare in Australian politics, and there are four reasons why Labor might still lose.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jim Davidson explores Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 May 2006
The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections
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AUSTRALIA
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 08 May 2006
Dorothy Horsfield visits the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe
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