Ryan Cropp is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. His biography of Donald Horne will be published by Black Inc/La Trobe University Press in 2023.
National affairs
Antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
National affairs
CFMEU’s cartel question
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
20 July 2024
Amid this week’s welter of allegations is a thorny matter of cartel law
Books & arts
Stateless, and loving it
Ryan Cropp
25 May 2023
Inspired by Hong Kong’s rise, countries all over the world created free-market enclaves. But who has really benefited?
Essays & reportage
Playing in the grey
Ryan Cropp
24 February 2023
A sociologist ventures into a largely hidden financial system beyond the reach of governments and regulators
Books & arts
Literary midwifery
Ryan Cropp
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
Books & arts
Flame wars
Ryan Cropp
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
Books & arts
Democracy is for losers
Ryan Cropp
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
From the archive
Organised irresponsibility
Ryan Cropp
17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
Books & arts
Chardonnay socialist
Ryan Cropp
19 August 2019
Books | Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
Books & arts
Collective madness
Ryan Cropp
14 August 2018
Books | George Megalogenis gives a vivid account of the development Australian rules football. But what does it mean for politics?
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