How entering Australia became a privilege for the rich. “Australia started life as a quarantine nation.”

How rentier capitalism is destroying Dublin. “This city is a place you can only enjoy when it’s down on its luck.”

The failed promise of Kenya’s first smart city. “Kenya was one of the earliest countries to outsource its dreaming to McKinsey.”

Post-Soviet literature and the HR managers of the human soul. “There is no sloping floor with a drain at the center in the offices of the New York Times Book Review where the blood of Jonathan Franzen might be more easily hosed away as in an abattoir.”

A brief history of independent police observers in Australia and around the world. I like the Hong Kong guys and their cool green helmets.

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