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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
In the Dark Room
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Ein biographisches
Album
edited by Michael Nedo
C.H. Beck, 2012, 463 pages, €39.99
In the train of the acclaimed exhibition “Wittgenstein and Photography”, shown at the London School of Economics to much acclaim in the summer of 2012, Michael Nedo, director of the Wittgenstein Archive in Cambridge and editor of the Wiener Ausgabe of Wittgenstein’s writings, has produced a sumptuously illustrated biography of the philosopher under the imprint of the Munich publisher C.H. Beck. Like his earlier co-edited volume Ludwig Wittgenstein: Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten (1983), it combines the visual and the textual in a compelling manner: this book is an album of over 500 images—family snaps, letters, postcards, patent depositions, walking routes, manuscripts with handwritten annotations by Wittgenstein—accompanied by over 2000 excerpts and citations from the work and letters (in both of the philosopher’s languages) many of which engage with his…
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
