Here are some recent Quadrant book releases with direct links to our online store. Beating France to Botany Bay by Margaret Cameron-Ash The reason French isn’t Australia’s native tongue? Well, it was a close run thing, as Margaret Cameron-Ash details in her page-turning account of the race between superpowers that would determine if the Union […]

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Until recently, Zac Kriegman was a very well paid data analyst with Reuters. But then he crunched the numbers of US police shootings involving black Americans and quickly discerned the Black Lives Matter narrative, the one being promoted by his news-wire employer, had not the slightest basis in fact. The result of urging a journalistic […]

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  That $3.3 billion recently handed to the ABC by the Morrison government must genuinely be needed to sustain the national broadcaster’s news-gathering efforts. If you doubt that, go to the search function at ABC News, enter the words “John Durham” and see what pops up. You’ll find only one recent mention of the special […]

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Glenn Reynolds, the Tennessee law professor who supervises the invaluable Instapundit group blog,  has been barracking for Elon Musk to take control of Twitter. Now he is having second thoughts, as he writes in the New York Post. … Musk would be good for Twitter, making it a better, more wholesome place. But set against […]

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Writing in the UK Telegraph, Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy: A Global History, observes Russia’s Ukraine folly and is reminded of a war that did much to bring down a tsar of the old school: The parallels between Ukraine and the Russo-Japanese war are not perfect. But if I were Vladimir Putin, I would find enough […]

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In Victoria today, more than two years after the state fell victim not to COVID but the expert-endorsed policies intended to defeat it, further pandemic-prompted rules and restrictions have been scratched. With luck, they won’t be back, although in light of Premier Daniel Andrews’ conduct one can never be sure. An election is coming in […]

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In the UK Telegraph, Douglas Murray observes how a justified pride in Western civilisation has been reduced over just 50 years to shame and a grovelling, irrational debasement: More than 50 years have gone by since the BBC ran Lord Kenneth Clark’s extraordinary 13-part documentary series Civilisation.  It aimed to give a unified history of […]

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It is a near certainty that few friends and readers of Quadrant, being a civilised and generally well-mannered lot, have ever been turfed out of a pub. Yet, while they are perfect gentleman, that is the treatment meted to climate realist Ian Plimer and The Christopher Dawson Centre’s David Daintree. From Hobart, David reports what […]

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Would it be too much to assume that many, almost certainly most, Quadrant readers and visitors are of the view that taxes are necessary but should be kept as low as humanly possible, ‘soaking the rich’ being a policy that substitutes class-based spite for good sense, investment and growth. Well ….. most of the time, […]

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