Culture

  • Socialist versus capitalist logic

    Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture & Health
    Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
    Monthly Review Press, 2007
    390 pages, US$22.95
    Available from The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
    By Tim Harford
    Little Brown, 2008
    264 pages, $35

  • On the box

    The President's Guide to Science — The decisions the new US president will make will affect every one of us, from nuclear proliferation to climate change. SBS, Sunday, November 9, 8.35pm. God is Green — Filmmaker Mark Dowd questions religious

  • When water isn't free

    Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale & Why We Bought It
    By Elizabeth Royte
    Scribe, 2008
    248 pages, $32.95 (pb)

  • On the box

    Mister President — Examines the film and television phenomenon that has made "stars" of the men and women who work in the Oval Office. SBS, Friday, October 31, 7.30pm. Dateline — Reports on some of the key battleground US states, and whether

  • Hope, terror and youth rebellion

    Looking back on the political movements of the ’60s and ’70s is now a fairly well trodden path in the form of fiction, history and memoirs alike.

  • The Poor's Hunger

    The autumn Wears the dress Of thorns To hide the colours Of the helplessness Of the thorns The tears Of the sky The raindrops Wears the dress Of the colours Of the rainbows To hide the hurt Of the tears Of the sky The