David McKnight is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales. His research covers the future of newspapers, climate change and politics. He is the author of Beyond Right and Left: New Politics and the Culture War, on the need for a radical renewal of the progressive political program, and an authoritative history of Australia’s internal security, Australia’s Spies and Their Secrets and Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. He is currently writing a book on News Corporation and Rupert Murdoch.