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Episode #186

Soul blindness: Clerical narcissism and unfathomable cruelty

By Scott Stephens

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Scott Stephens reviews a book by Anne Manne: Crimes of the Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle, its protectors and the man who fought for justice. Why is narcissism a central theme for a book about child sexual abuse? Stephens writes: ‘without the capacity or willingness to be attentive to the humanity of another person’, unfathomable cruelty becomes possible. Scott Stephens is the ABC’s Religion & Ethics online editor and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. Listen to Scott Stephens’s ‘Soul blindness: Clerical narcissism and unfathomable cruelty’, published in the May issue of ABR.

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Political Tourists: : Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen

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July–August 2008, no. 303

John Thompson reviews 'Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s' edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn

In the years between the two world wars, the young Soviet Union was, for socialist intellectuals and many liberals in the West, a social laboratory, one that held the promise of a new world order. Inspired by the transforming power and promise of the October Revolution of 1917, some were drawn to admiration of the great Socialist Experiment ‘in a land where revolutionaries were trying to create a socialist society based on the principles of central economic planning’.

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Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick

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November 2007, no. 296

Nick Fischer reviews 'Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics' edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick

Against The Grain celebrates two iconoclastic Australian historians: Manning Clark and Brian Fitzpatrick. Comprising papers from a 2006 conference organised by two of their daughters, both distinguished academics, Against the Grain offers critical thoughts and reminiscences of family members, friends, colleagues, students and academic successors of the two men.

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