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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
“the book of 2011”
Mark Steyn’s After America is brilliant. Don’t just take our word for it.
Daniel Hannan in “After America: the book of 2011”:
As a Leftish opinion page editor put it in the days when Steyn wrote for this newspaper, ‘he’s supposed to be the entertaining loon, but it’s alarming how often his predictions come true’. More…
Bill Muehlenberg:
Before this book – and others like it – is banned, I suggest you get it now and read it, and then read it again. Let it soak in like good medicine. Then decide which way you want the West to proceed. More…
Conservative21:
While freedom is being threatened by a variety of sources, one of the problems, Steyn points out, is that more and more laws and regulations are being enacted by unelected bureaucrats in safe government jobs and not by elected officials. More…
At Amazon the Lefties scream “trash” and intelligent, charming people are enthusiastic:
The cover of Steyn’s book shows a dead Uncle Sam, flat on his back and with a toe tag….
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
