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Brendon O'Connor

Brendon O'Connor is an Associate Professor in the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and is the 2008 Australia Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He is the editor of seven books on anti-Americanism and has also published articles and books on American welfare policy, presidential politics, US foreign policy, and Australian-American relations.

Author's website: Brendon O'Connor's home page


 
Here’s to a politics that faces up to the facts
International - 25/01/2021 - 15 comments
The forgotten war and its deadly costs
International - 1/05/2020 - 27 comments
The Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief
International - 7/10/2019 - 10 comments
Why just read for pleasure: the case of Michel Houellebecq
Society - 12/01/2017 - 2 comments
Australia too ready to forget costs of US wars
International - 25/11/2014 - 3 comments
Cost of Iraq War drains the US in race with China
International - 21/03/2013 - 3 comments
Obama gets a second chance to play a bad hand
International - 22/01/2013 - 5 comments
America on the edge of a fiscal cliff
International - 14/11/2012 - 14 comments
Obama's 'Fair Go' strategy
International - 11/09/2012 - 2 comments
Why do we watch the US?
International - 30/08/2012
The end of the Reagan era
International - 12/03/2012
The power of political soap opera
International - 21/10/2011 - 3 comments
Americans are people too
International - 9/09/2011 - 31 comments
So sentimental, not sentimental!*
International - 15/03/2011 - 14 comments
Arnie in the age of ultra-Patriotism
International - 12/01/2011 - 2 comments
How Obama could have achieved more real change
International - 18/11/2010 - 20 comments
History never quite repeats
International - 10/11/2010 - 2 comments
What’s wrong with American Politics? The Congress
International - 19/10/2010
Obama is 'on the nose'
International - 5/08/2010 - 15 comments
Has Obama changed the world in 18 months?
International - 3/06/2010 - 4 comments
The United States of weirdness? From the Birthers to the Oath Keepers
International - 5/03/2010 - 6 comments
A blow for the Democrats and democracy in the USA
International - 25/01/2010 - 7 comments
Actions worthy of a Nobel laureate
International - 16/11/2009 - 9 comments
Obama: one year on
International - 6/11/2009 - 3 comments
Dominick Dunne and Edward Kennedy: two American lives with a second act
International - 20/10/2009
The end of the Kennedy dynasty
International - 28/08/2009 - 4 comments
The Godzilla from Wasilla
International - 17/07/2009 - 8 comments
Obama: the new authentic American?
International - 30/04/2009
What Obama could learn from Jefferson
Political Philosophy - 21/04/2009 - 4 comments
The United States and the ties that bind
International - 9/04/2009 - 13 comments
Obama: from soaring rhetoric to brass tacks
International - 26/11/2008 - 5 comments
Obama: whatever it takes and a few lucky breaks
International - 12/11/2008 - 3 comments
American election, global trial
International - 3/11/2008 - 6 comments
The future of anti-Americanism
International - 28/10/2008 - 40 comments
Palin appeals to American's anti-intellectualism
International - 17/10/2008 - 43 comments
Not up to the job
International - 7/10/2008 - 25 comments
Shopping as an Imperial right
International - 11/09/2008 - 4 comments
Obama's battle for the battlers
International - 2/05/2008 - 2 comments
Reflections on Anzac Day - why did we fight?
Society - 29/04/2008 - 55 comments
Where’s the beef?
International - 22/02/2008 - 2 comments
Presidential survivor
International - 15/02/2008 - 2 comments
The perils of conventional wisdom
International - 31/01/2008 - 8 comments
Could the Common Huckabee be the WASP's saviour?
International - 16/01/2008 - 3 comments
Anti-Americanism flourishes
International - 7/12/2007 - 20 comments
A true propagandist
International - 18/01/2007 - 26 comments
Operation Clark County: the British dabbling in American politics
International - 1/12/2006 - 1 comment
Howard’s Republican gamble
International - 21/11/2006 - 9 comments
Victory wrapped in star-spangled banner
International - 16/11/2004
This JFK offers a real alternative
International - 2/11/2004
Tributes to Ronald Reagan overlook a large down side of his legacy
International - 18/06/2004
Unpopular presidents, like Nixon, Reagan and maybe Bush, often win
International - 19/04/2004
The last respectable prejudice: Anti-Americanism in Australia
International - 6/11/2003
The subtle differences between anti-Americanism and reasonable criticism
International - 15/07/2003
Does Aussie culture need protection from US cultural imperialism?
Society - 8/07/2003
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