The Monthly Jaivin, Clive James, Kate Jennings, Paul Kelly, Benjamin Law, Amanda Lohrey, Mungo MacCallum, Shane Maloney, Robert Manne, David Marr, Maxine McKew, Drusilla Modjeska, Peter Robb, Kevin Rudd, Margaret Simons, Tim Soutphommasane, Lindsay Tanner, Malcolm Turnbull and Don Watson. Essays The magazine generally publishes essays 3,000 to 6,000 words long. The cover stories "Being There", Mark McKenna's investigation of key Australian historian Manning Clark, and Wendi Deng Murdoch, Eric Ellis's profile of the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch were around 10,000 words long. Early in 2006, "The Monthly" published "Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid" by Gideon Haigh,
Wendy Brown (political theorist) California has sunk to nearly the bottom of the nation in per student spending, and our public higher education system, once the envy of the world, is in real peril." Brown supported Occupy Wall Street as part of the UC faculty council, claiming that "We understand this to be part of what (the movement) stands for. We are delighted by the protests and consider our campaign to be at one with it." Brown is a native of California and lives in Berkeley with her wife Judith Butler and son. Wendy Brown (political theorist) Wendy L. Brown (born November 28, 1955)