Apparently, if you believe the ABC,  the destruction in the video below is the work of “peaceful” protesters whose only wish, apart from ousting an elected president, is to encourage good behaviour by American policemen. For anyone who has visited New York or lived there, the footage is heartbreaking. For the full impact, enlarge the […]

Read More

Apologies to subscribers. We are currently experiencing a technical problem that makes it difficult to renew an existing subscription or take out a new subscription to either Quadrant Online or Quadrant Magazine. However, our telephone and mail subscription services are still working. Please call (03) 8317 8147 during business hours.

Read More

The audio quality isn’t good, but it’s worth enduring to absorb Mark Steyn’s monologue on modern leadership, Minneapolis’ “seven-minute, slo-mo killing” and much more.

Read More

The New York Times in May pulled together a group profile of the foreign correspondents who cover Washington for the rest of the world, among them the ABC’s James Glenday (above), who by his own account can barely cope with the workload: There’s also the pace of the work itself, which has accelerated over the […]

Read More

At left on our homepage, Frank Salter details the low standard of Australian teaching, infused as it is with politically correct mythology and the Left’s obsession with viewing every topic through the distorting lens of identity politics. British teacher Katharine Birbalsingh encountered the same poisons at work in London schools, spoke of them in public […]

Read More

Conrad Black on China, its quislings and useful idiots, and what is to be done in response to Beijing’s bellicosity: … Being as positive as reasonably possible, it seems that the Chinese were experimenting with a range of dangerous viruses, and that this one escaped unintentionally, and the highest levels of the Chinese government determined […]

Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many things, but not the global distribution of evasive talking points. Here, for example, is China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, responding to a question about the Middle Kingdom’s willingness or otherwise to take part in the investigation of the Wuhan Flu’s origins, the probe PM Scott Morrison and other […]

Read More

Astonished by Dark Emu‘s fauxboriginal author Bruce Pascoe’s chutzpah, Peter O’Brien writes: I have not bought heavily into the controversy about Bruce Pascoe’s Aboriginality because I am much more concerned with his fake history in Dark Emu.  The book should stand on its own merits (lack of merit, actually), regardless of whether its author is […]

Read More

From Danigrad on the Yarra, Edmund Shieh writes: On Monday (May 11), Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, out of the kindness of his heart granted Victorians a fifth permission to walk out their front doors. This being phase one of a three-phase roadmap to achieve a COVID-safe Australia. Hallelujah! Visiting friends and family is no longer […]

Read More

Friend of Quadrant Colin Robertson writes to share his chart detailing the WuFlu’s toll around the world: I’ve been tracking the performance of various countries with regards to testing, mortality and restrictions. It’s become more and more apparent — to me, anyway — that the lockdown success of the antipodean counties is a post hoc […]

Read More