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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
Henry Kissinger on Global Order
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
by Henry Kissinger
Penguin, 2014, 432 pages, $49.99
Dr Henry Kissinger was undoubtedly one of the leading statesmen of the Western world during and after the Nixon presidency. His extraordinary rise from refugee boy to professor at Harvard, to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s adviser and finally Richard Nixon’s Secretary of State is unparalleled.
More extraordinary still were the skill and understanding with which he dealt with his moody master and various foreign leaders. His achievements were even more remarkable: we need think only of the way he arranged detente with the Soviet Union, ended the Vietnam War (only to see his promise of American material help for South Vietnam’s defence undermined by the Watergate scandal and a resentful Congress), arranged a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt and, by no means least, brought China back into the international arena by persuading…
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
