Mark Mazower could steal the show. His recent book on anti-semitism should be illuminating.

It tells me it's time to start from the ground up with literary festivals. Let go of the sponsoring institutions and all their yes men and brown nosers and start with something worth listening to and attending.

Looks to me like some forms of racism are acceptable in a modern Australia. Right before a Royal Commission into one form.

At some point in the US, someone fixed the leaky tap of trickle down economics permanently.