Sydney Writers Festival, that taxpayer-funded jamboree for virtue-signalling literary lefties (and only lefties), has just seen star guest Junot Diaz fly home after being Me-Too'd as a sexist pig. Progressives are funny lot, as we discovered at last year's Melbourne gabble-a-thon

Something quite remarkable distinguished this year's Melbourne Writers Festival: it was attended by a writer who happens not to be of the Left, Quadrant's James McCann. Here's a small sample from his much longer and still-paywalled piece in our December issue.  Another good reason to subscribe

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia […]

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer […]