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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
Joe Biden and the Struggle for the World
James Burnham, in Struggle for the World (1947), challenged Americans to face up to the uncompromising truth that compromise had ceased to be a viable option in the new post-war era:
What is wrong is not this or that tactic but the basic idea. This idea is that, by some means or combination of means, you must and will solve the problems of the world by “getting along with Russia”, and this is interpreted to mean getting along not with the Russian people—who could be friendly enough—but with the communist regime which now dominates Russia. But the truth … is that you can get along with communism in only one way: by capitulating to it.
We might exchange Russia for China and arrive at a fairly accurate description of our current predicament. Biden’s foreign policy is not going to be a matter of Obama 2.0 because circumstances—in this case the growing assertiveness and power of Xi Jinping’s totalitarian regime—mean that “getting along with China” now more than…
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
