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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Is July the Cruelest Month?
A macabre coincidence of date links three historic tragedies, each very different, with the 17th of July.
The best known occurred in revolutionary Russia with the brutal murder of an entire family in the presence of each other, for base political ends. This was notoriously the fate of the Russian Romanov family: Czar Nicholas II, his wife the Empress Alexandra, their four daughters Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, their little son, Alexei, and four loyal retainers Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitanov.
The eleven were shot and bayoneted by their Bolshevik captors, allegedly with the personal approval of Lenin, at 1 am on July 17, 1918, in the basement of the fortified Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, located east of the Ural Mountains and sometimes described as Russia’s gateway to Asia. The eleven bodies were stripped, despoiled and carried away for disposal in improvised grave sites.
The Bolshevik murders were for a…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
