Writing at UnHerd, UK blogger Toby Green observes the scramble by celebrity epidemiologists and other media-revered ‘experts’ to recast the COVID narratives they peddled relentlessly through two years’ of lockdowns, mask mandates, fines and nonsensical edicts that, as they tirelessly assured one and all, would stop the coronavirus in its tracks. Were he writing of […]

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Sky viewers enjoyed Margaret Cameron-Ash’s brief chat last night (Jan 26) with Rowan Dean — a conversation which, no doubt due to time constraints, neglected to mention Beating France to Botany Bay: The Race to Found Australia is published by Quadrant and available via this link. In November 2021 at the Sydney Institute, Ms Cameron-Ash had […]

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At The Pipeline, Michael Walsh reflects on our modern day Napoleons … or perhaps that should be Josephines: …. this is the lunatic world we currently live in, thanks in large part to the tolerance brigade, which demands that normal people (and yes, there are such things) tolerate and even encourage mental illness on a […]

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Roger Kimball writes: … Winston Smith, Orwell’s unhappy protagonist, had to contend with a tiny two-way television set in his flat that he could not turn off and that constantly eavesdropped on him. Chinese citizens have to contend with having their texts, emails, and internet activity constantly scrutinized, which also means having every phone conversation […]

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Quadrant‘s Salvatore Babones will be mulling the future of Australia’s universities today (Jan 28) with  Gregory Melleuish, who contributed “Stuart Macintyre and the History Wars” to the current edition. If you missed the livestream, their chat can still be viewed online

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As promised at left, Quadrant‘s Salvatore Babones has launched his vlog, joining our Literary Editor Barry Spurr in the above episode to discuss the future and hope — or perhaps the lack thereof — of a universities that provide an education worthy of the cost and effort. To follow their conversation in a larger format […]

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Last weekend, a British Muslim invaded a Texas synagogue and held the rabbi and four members of his flock at gunpoint while demanding the release from prison of a biochemist known as ‘Lady Al Qaeda’. The drama flared briefly across news sites before vanishing from sight. As the Australian Jewish News observes, the assault …failed […]

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Many Quadrant readers greatly admire Jordan Peterson (above). Well the rampant wokeism has led him to give up his tenured position at Toronto University, where he has long been less than popular with so-called ‘liberal’ colleagues. He writes: We are now at the point where race, ethnicity, “gender,” or sexual preference is first, accepted as […]

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My son, who lives in New York and covers sport for a US free-to-air television network, called the other day with a simple question: ‘What the hell sort of madness is raging over there?’ He was speaking, of course, about the Djokovic debacle, also wondering if Australians realise ‘how you are now global laughingstocks’? Ned […]

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