Matthew Thompson Interview

Tell arts they have no soundness,But vary by esteeming;Tell schools they want profoundness,And stand too much on seeming. Sir Walter…

Suddenly, the right has discovered an enthusiasm for funding universities. Not with public money, of course: the government’s moratorium on…

It was in June 1967 – one of the iciest months ever recorded in Buenos Aires – that Argentinian readers…

I want to talk about publishing and writing in Australia today. We have an old publishing industry that clings tightly…

‘A student’s complaint about what is disparagingly called “rote learning” touched off some preoccupations that seem to go quite some way back with me. For some reason the topic of memory has always been centrally important to any thinking I have done about culture, politics, and society.’