Jeff Sparrow
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Crikey
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 17, 2026
Latest articles
The arc of Milo Yiannopoulos and the opportunist grift (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you like this article, share it with your friends. After seeing far-right influencer Milo Yiannopoulos recently post a picture of himself praying in a mosque, a question came to mind: What do conservatives truly believe? You might remember that, once upon a time, Milo was A Big Deal. As tech editor for the conservative outlet Breitbart, he helped create the so-called “alt right”, channelling a wave of male support for Trumpism by glomming onto “Gamergate”, an insanely complicated pseudo-scand
Resisting climate desecration means rebuking 'social cohesion' (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you like this article, share it with your friends. Back in the day, mainstream efforts to publicise climate change — think of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth or films like The Day After Tomorrow — inevitably featured scenes in which walls of water swept away entire communities. They looked rather like what we’ve just seen in Nepal, where, at the time of writing, floods have killed at least 1,000 people, with around 4,500 still missing, 38 of them Australian. Scientists can’t yet identify the
If the US can't afford to keep China out, can Australia? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you like this article, share it with your friends. When the Albanese government axed a joint venture between ANU and Shandong University in China on “national security grounds”, there was consternation in the university sector. Speaking at an annual higher education summit on Tuesday, Brian Schmidt, former vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) and Nobel Prize-winning professor of astrophysics, said since the collaborative program presented “almost no risk”, he didn’t kno
Universities face increased scrutiny over working with certain foreign nations. Why isn't Israel one of them? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you like this article, share it with your friends. Currently before parliament is a suite of changes to the Foreign Relations Act. If passed, Australian universities will face increased government scrutiny over collaborations with certain foreign nations deemed to “adversely affect the national interest” or be “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy”. This could impact institutions in China, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Brunei, Vietnam and Laos. But if it’s legitimate for the government to re
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 500K sites
For Crikey, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.