Recently added articles from Quarterly Essay:

The family and free market.(LOVE & MONEY)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... "A princely marriage," observed the nineteenth-century essayist Walter Bagehot, "is a brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind." In the modern era, a political marriage is likely to interest us more than a princely one. While the royal family continues richly to ...

Get to work.(LOVE & MONEY)(stay at home mothers)(Viewpoint essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... In the United States in late 2005, the retired trial lawyer, legal academic and feminist Linda Hirshman made a striking intervention in the mother wars. Writing in the magazine The American Prospect, Hirshman attacked educated women for their part in the so-called "opt-out revolution." ...

The feminist ethic and the spirit of the new capitalism.(LOVE & MONEY)(Critical essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... In his classic essay "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," Max Weber showed how one variant of Christianity, Protestantism, emerged as the key legitimating idea of early capitalism. With Catholicism, salvation was assured by submission to the Church's authority. With ...

There's no place like work?(LOVE & MONEY)(Essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... At one time in my life I had permanently singed fingertips. Between my final year at school and university, I had my first job. It was in outback New South Wales. I was, as it was quaintly called, a jillaroo, a general stationhand who rounded up cattle and worked on the farm. To this the ...

Why love matters.(LOVE & MONEY)(Critical essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... The Melbourne psychotherapist Frances Salo-Thompson once made a simple but profound point to me about child-rearing. The most important thing, she said, is that a child feels enjoyed. As I listened, a memory flashed out from years back. I was teaching at Melbourne University and scurrying ...

Love's labour.(LOVE & MONEY)(Essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... Some goddesses devise a competition among nations, a kind of Olympics with a twist. Health and prosperity for all will be the prize granted to the nation that can collectively run the greatest distance in the shortest time. But only the goddesses know how long the race will last. ...

The fork in the road.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... In an essay in The Monthly, Kevin Rudd wrote that "the time has come for a vision for Australia not limited by the narrowest of definitions of our national self-interest." The family must not be "sacrificed at the altar of market reality ... progressive politics argues that the mandate of ...

Sources.(LOVE & MONEY)

Mar 01, 2008; Manne, Anne ... 3 "I've never asked Therese": cited in AAP news report, "Marriage Stronger than Ever: Rudd," Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 2007. 3 "an independent business woman": cited in Carla Danaher, "Rudd Offensive, Claim Mums," Herald Sun, 26 May 2007. 3 "British sociologist ...

Correspondence: Bill Bowtell.(EXIT RIGHT)

Mar 01, 2008; Bowtell, Bill ... "We can win the election, but he cannot," was Peter Costello's blunt assessment of the Coalition's prospects were John Howard to lead it into the 2007 election. A year ago, not many observers of Australian politics agreed with Costello. Most professional commentators were sure ...

Correspondence: Norman Abjorensen.(EXIT RIGHT)(Critical essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Abjorensen, Norman ... In between Judith Brett's insightful Relaxed and Comfortable and her incisive Exit Right we have the eerily fascinating Errington and van Onselen biography of John Howard--but still we see through a glass darkly. I call the biography "eerily fascinating" because it is ...

Correspondence: Rebecca Huntley.(EXIT RIGHT)(Critical essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Huntley, Rebecca ... Reading Judith Brett's Exit Right in the last week of 2007 was a fitting end to a memorable year in Australian politics. I was reminded while reading Brett of Peter Hartcher's thesis in the first QE of the year, Bipolar Nation. In that essay, Hartcher proposed that Howard would win the ...

Correspondence: Tony Kevin.(EXIT RIGHT)(Viewpoint essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Kevin, Tony ... There is an emerging consensus that John Howard lost the 2007 election primarily due to voter fears over WorkChoices, worry over interest-rate rises (and broken promises), a sense that he was getting too old for the job, and growing alienation, especially in younger voters, from his ...

Response to correspondence: Judith Brett.(EXIT RIGHT)(Viewpoint essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Brett, Judith ... "When you change the government, you change the country," said Keating in 1996, warning us what to expect if John Howard were elected. Howard's version of the warning last year was more modest: "There is no such thing as a change of government when everything continues the same as it was ...

Correspondence: Philip Moore.(REACTION TIME)(Critical essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Moore, Philip ... Ian Lowe's essay is strong on assertions but weak on factual evidence. He tells us that nuclear power is too expensive (p.3 and many other places), the economic case for nuclear power is very dubious and is usually based on a careful selection of past evidence or heroic assumptions about ...

Response to correspondence: Ian Lowe.(REACTION TIME)(Viewpoint essay)

Mar 01, 2008; Lowe, Ian ... I was surprised by Philip Moore's claim that my essay Reaction Time was "strong on assertions but weak on factual evidence." I explicitly stated that there are different legitimate approaches to calculating the possible cost if we were to build nuclear power stations in Australia, as well ...