Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian writer, and government relations and public policy specialist. He is a former Brisbane City Council election candidate, ministerial adviser, United Nations worker, international youth volunteer, and national water polo champion. Sean holds a BA (International Relations) from Griffith University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism from Macquarie University. He also holds qualifications from the Australian National Security College, the Australian Institute of Management and the University of New England. [READ MORE]

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The end of race politics

A review of Coleman Hughes’ thoughtful The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024. The topic of race is ‘boring’ to Coleman Hughes. To state such a thing publicly, in the United States, is enough to land one in both social and professional hot water. Yet New York-born Hughes – half black, half Puerto Rican – has carved himself out as a leading contrarian figure on the issue of race in the United States. I label Hughes ‘contrarian’ here because the space occupied on his short path, at only 28 years old, is […]

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