Antony Loewenstein joins panellists Richard Denniss, Richard Cooke, and chair Jeff Sparrow at the Brisbane Writers Festival.
Commentators have been calling the end of neoliberalism for some years now. Hear from three experts on the impacts of neoliberalism and what could rise in its stead.
Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake. His latest book is Pills, Powder, and Smoke.
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. Jeff is a former member of the 3RRR Breakfasters team and the immediate past editor of literary journal Overland. He is the author of a number of books, including Money Shot: a journey into porn and censorship; No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson; and Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right. His upcoming book Person X and the Fascists Amongst Us will be out in November 2019.
