Tom van Laer tom.vanlaer@sydney.edu.au Follow @narratologic tom.vanlaer@sydney.edu.au Tom van Laer is an Associate Professor of Narratology at the University of Sydney. Most Recent Everything in Mecca gets 5 stars — and Online Reviews of Other Holy Sites are Wildly Inflated, Too Tom van Laer Latest Articles 1 Inside the UN Inquiry Into Russia’s Deportation of Ukrainian Children by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 2 Closing Air Spaces and Cracking Alliances: Trump’s Growing Problem with Allies by Binoy Kampmark 3 In an Era of Hype, Investor Relations Must Return to First Principles by Duggan Flanakin 4 Chantal McKinney Explains Why Faith Can Survive Without the Church by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 5 Inspiring the Authentic Journalist: The Pentagon’s Renewed Attack on Press Credentials by Binoy Kampmark