Paul Monk

Paul MonkContributor

With the rise of China the biggest story in geopolitics, these three books should be read and discussed

The extraordinary intellectual friendship between Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman helped change the way we think.

Has ANZUS reached its use-by date? Should we tie alliances to the US or elsewhere? Two timely books offer a fresh approach.

Events in Turkey will further reinforce the hardening approach to radical Islamists.

The victory of an amoral demagogue exposes flaws in the US founding fathers’ formula.

The victory of an amoral demagogue exposes flaws in the US founding fathers’ formula.

Robert Manne’s new book on Islamic State glosses over a fundamental problem with the Muslim religion.

The Phoenix Years is required reading to understand how China has stumbled repressively through the past four decades.

Long held up as a beacon of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain in the middle ages was a place of violence and bigotry.

Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s catastrophic impact on China has been exposed by historian Frank Dikotter.