Novelist Chimamanda Adichie writes about being attacked for things she didn’t say, and how predatory online culture has become. “In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give.”
Celeste Liddle on raising the age of criminal responsibility, and why kids in primary school probably shouldn’t be in prison.
Tim Robertson on why Kevin Rudd’s Fourth Way politics is not as good as it sounds. Who knew, right? Also why did Rudd grow that shitty beard, is the real mystery here.
Cute interview with the makers of an ABC doco about Chinese restaurants in rural Australia.
How one of California’s most powerful unions is being taken over by a weird Koch Brothers antivax guy.
Review of Marge Piercy’s 1976 sci-fi novel Woman on the Edge of Time that I liked.
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