Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on topics of international security and modern history, and is currently lecturing in Modern History at the University of Queensland. I blog at Oz Moses (http://ozmoses.blogspot.com/)


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	Authentic Fakes: The Hitler Diaries and History by Binoy Kampmark Frauds in time become historical artefacts, objects of their own worth. As projects, they may not have succeeded in attaining the brand of authenticity – but that hardly matters. Their authenticity is me
	Justifying Operation Storm: The Acquittals of Gotovina and Markac by Binoy Kampmark It was trial as cinema, with crowds of people gather
	The Politics of "Legitimate Rape" The Romney-Akin Nexus by Binoy Kampmark If a campaign can self-destruct in an inferno of imbecility, then this must surely provide a good recipe for it. Aiken’s grasp of reality, at least when it comes to those of the opposite gender, is slim, caricatured and severe. E

	Platini and the Race Card by Binoy Kampmark Michel Platini, the UEFA President ever lurking in the shadows of global football, was seeking to pull his weight just prior to the opening fixture of Euro 2012, which is now underway in Poland and the Ukraine. The way he is doing so, notabl
	Violence in Miami: Bath Salts and Causeway Cannibalism by Binoy Kampmark One of the striking, brilliant paradoxes of American life is how it reconciles the legal with the brutal, the concept of a healthy rounded life with that of fast food and supersizing. At times, its legalism is sclerotic and mundane. It
	The Gibson Cauldron: Mobster Fantasies and Get the Gringo by Binoy Kampmark
	A Silly Sort of Patriotism: Meditations on ANZAC Day by Binoy Kampmark Anzac Day is a volatile dynamic phenomenon (that) will keep changing as we doDavid MaloufAnother ceremony, another round of marches for the veterans and current members of the Australi
	Softening the Metal: Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady by Binoy Kampmark Madonna in Downing StreetLinda Grant on Margaret Thatcher, The Guardian, Jan 5Gore Vidal claimed that the second unfortunate thing to befall Abraham Lincoln was not merely his assassin
	Civilian Policing: Killing Trayvon Martin and Neighbourhood Watch by Binoy Kampmark A hundred years of lynching, justifiable homicide. Same thing.Protester’s sign, Sanford, Mar 21, 2012‘We report all suspicious persons and activities to the Sanford Police Department.
	The Santorum Brief: Conservatism and Extremist Comedy by Binoy Kampmark God bless Rick Santorum. For no one else will be – certainly not Dan Savage, who proposed a definition for the presidential contender’s last name: ‘lubricant mixed with faecal matter, as a byproduct of anal sex’.
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