Writing on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research,  Jeffrey A. Tucker laments the lunacy Premier Daniel Andrews is inflicting on the state stupid enough to have made him its Premier, not once but twice. Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel […]

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Friend of Quadrant Les Louis was doing some online slumming and stopped by to inspect the latest pearls at The Conversation, where he found the deep thoughts of Robyn Moore, of the University of Tasmania’s School of Social Sciences, whose research “focuses on examining the enduring nature of race and gender based inequalities” plus “examining […]

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The Wall Street Journal wonders how, in the middle of a pandemic, the 12 per cent of the US economy represented by health care dropped through the floor, subtracting 9.5 per cent from US second-quarter GDP, itself down on an annualised basis by a staggering 32 per cent. How does that happen in a pandemic? […]

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Saputo, the Canadian outfit which owns Coon cheese, has decided to “retire” the brand lest it give offence to … who exactly? Here’s the company’s statement: At Saputo, one of our basic principles as an organization is to treat people with respect and without discrimination and we will not condone behaviour that goes against this. […]

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As a source of apolitical medical news and analysis, The Lancet has been a dubious messenger for more than a few recent years. Climate alarmism, the mortal perils of Brexit, voters electing the wrong candidates, mangled statistics — all give cause to approach the British medical journal and its conclusions with a good deal of caution. […]

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More in sorrow than anger, Quadrant contributor Tony Grey writes of The New York Times‘ sad decline and its future peril: The sad resignation the other day of Bari Weiss, one of the most talented writers of the New York Times, demonstrates in the exquisite beauty of clarity how there is an urge, a deep […]

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Pete Jonson’s blog honours economist and monetary theorist Henry Thornton and is well worth bookmarking for regular visits. He was reading Victoria’s papers over the weekend as the state endured the latest consequences of life under a premier who appears to operate on the theory that sly is an adequate substitute for smart. Remarkably, his […]

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An academic and friend of Quadrant draws our attention to a petition seeking sweeping reforms to the way our universities are run: … At present, most University Councils have ceased to be transparently accountable to either the Universities on whose behalf they are legally intended to act or to the broader public who funds the […]

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At The Federalist, Stella Moribito considers the remarkable number of angry, sometimes violent, women manning (pardon the expression, girls) the barricades … such women sniff the wind for signs of wokeness, they compromise all principles of objective morality. Not too long ago, these same women may well have shuddered at the prospect of injecting their […]

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Victor Davis Hanson concludes a short essay on one source of the world’s many current madnesses: …The woke but godless, the arrogant but ignorant, the violent but physically unimpressive, the degreed but poorly educated, the broke but acquisitive, the ambitious but stalled — these are history’s ingredients of riot and revolution. Read it all here […]

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