The thinkers that The Australian chose for its left series weren’t leftists, they were labourists – submitting their intellectual abilities to the pre-ordained goal of selling a stunningly unambitious political programme.
Articles by Guy Rundle 
Guy Rundle: The Australian can’t tell its left from right
Guy Rundle: Don’t mention the war around Switzer
As the Bradfield preselection hots up, prize candidate Tom Switzer must be getting a little nervous about one thing: will anyone ask him about the war?
Guy Rundle: Why Rudd said the F-word. Twice!
Kevin Rudd’s F-bomb attack caused an outbreak of “uh-maaaah”s from the News Ltd press. But there’s a way the ALP can spin this to their advantage…
Guy Rundle: Rundle: The death of the neo-cons
Though neoconservatives came to most people’s attention during the Dubya era, their imperial purple was undoubtedly the Reagan years. The death of Irving Kristol rules a line across one era of the American intellectual right.
Guy Rundle: Women at war, the mother of political betrayals
The Rudd government’s policy of equality will be fulfilled when a young Australian mother is killed on the front line, and her small children can fold up a flag and put it on her coffin.
Guy Rundle: Reality, alternate reality and tea parties
Organisers of a march in Washington against the Obama administration claimed to have attracted 1.5 million attendees, but it looks like they were off by a good 1.43 million. Of course, it’s all the Left’s fault.
Guy Rundle: The play’s the thing missing from the PEN anthology
The great, the good and my good friend Peter Craven have already weighed in on the issue of “progressive inclusion” of indigenous writing in the new Macquarie Australian lit anthology. But the omission of drama is the real scandal.
Guy Rundle: The issue that’s not allowed online
The issue that gets everyone everywhere into trouble is forthright criticism of Israel.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s poem of the week
A nautical but nice poem by Crikey laureate Guy Rundle.
Was Mohammed Atta simply a crazed heritage lister?
Guy Rundle ponders whether Mohammed Atta, the enigmatic figure behind the 911 attacks, was simply the armed wing of the Arab National Trust.
Guy Rundle: Turnbull is failing his party on every front
Malcolm Turnbull has the least aptitude for frontline politics of anyone in recent memory.
Guy Rundle: Afghanistan has descended into a Pulp Fiction mess
Afghanistan is a Tarantino war — pointless, ill-thought, derivative, and organised around senseless violence.
Guy Rundle: Devine diagnoses the “narcissism epidemic”: blame parents
In the SMH, Miranda Devine weighs in on the “narcissism epidemic” as documented by, surprisingly, social psychologists. Her diagnosis? Blame the parents.
Guy Rundle: A bag of douche
In this month’s Quadrant, David Free has an interesting take on Clive James’s latest collection of essays…
Guy Rundle: Getting personal when it comes to disorders
Brendan Nelson left politics, describing his successor as suffering from “narcissistic personality disorder”, which gained a whole news cycle of coverage it didn’t deserve.
Vale Teddy, we may never see his like
So the lion of the Senate will roar no more — and any number of DC cocktail waitresses can breathe a little easier today.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
Guy Rundle: Stay tuned for the Argonauts
The Liberal preselection process is really fielding the A-team, with Senator Bill Heffernan making an appearance on Lateline.
Guy Rundle: Those crazy ole Republicans aren’t funny anymore
The US is heading towards a health care bill of 20% of GDP, at which point the country has, economically, become one huge hospital. If Obama is not allowed to fix it, it will crash and burn.
Guy Rundle: Woodstock: seriously, dude, how old are you?
If you remember the ’60s as a good time, you weren’t there — or you weren’t there with The Australian’sDavid Burchell, writes Guy Rundle.
Guy Rundle: Friday drive-bys: Boring business meetings … cut and paste monkeys …
End-of-week snippets from the travels of Guy Rundle, including Tom Switzer’s fascinating trip to NZ, the greatest right-wing own goal of recent times, and a Woodstock flashback.
Guy Rundle: Ozwatch: highlights from the world’s wackiest broadsheet op-ed page
Guy Rundle wraps the highlights from the world’s wackiest broadsheet op-ed page, brought to you by those funsters at The Australian.
Guy Rundle: NRO finds possible evidence of anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany
Crikey / Guy Rundle / Tuesday, 8 September 2009
“Has there been anti-Semitism on the political right?” asks NRO editor Jonah Goldberg. A complex question… unless the topic in question is ‘Germany in the 1930s’.