June 2011 Volume LV, No. 6
The Failure that Spawned Cuba’s Protests
Metamorphosis
Being Bamboo
Jacaranda Season
Smoke Plume
The women of Barwon Heads
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Ten years ago, when the Cuban regime bet the house on slight and modest economic reforms, Quadrant reported on daily life and the possibility that a measure of freedom might emerge. Today, as mass protests fill Havana's streets, we reprise that examination of a plan that with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight could do nothing but failJuly 14, 2021
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Jacaranda season. Purple clusters in every other garden, and fallen […]
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Imagine living in darkness, never seeing the sun, hearing the […]
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The Duke of York and Lionel Logue SIR: I enjoyed […]
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Most political commentators, even the better ones, underestimate Julia Gillard. […]
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Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should […]
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Every year, $100,000 of our taxes is spent for each […]
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Quadrant readers will probably have some familiarity with South Africa’s […]
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Jan Gothard, Greater Expectations: Living with Down Syndrome in the […]
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On June 7, 2007, the telephone rang in the office […]
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Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest (Allen Lane, […]
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Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now (Profile, 2010), 768 […]
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Fitzroy Stars My bosses at the Fitzroy Aboriginal Health Centre, […]
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Victoria voted strongly ALP at the last federal election, but […]
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A Tweet by the associate editor of Overland was clear […]
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On November 8, 2010, the Gillard government announced that it […]
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My introduction to popular science came as a response to […]
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Across the road from my place on Lemon Tree Passage […]
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Australia’s role in the Pacific war from 1941 to 1945 […]
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On July 29, 1953, the Canberra Trades and Labour Council, […]
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As destroyers went, she was unmistakably a veteran. Her two […]
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On December 26 last year, Coles Supermarkets announced that starting […]
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Sev Sternhell is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University […]
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Analogies are frequently drawn between the Roman empire and the […]
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This year is an appropriate one to recall the work […]
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When an individual migrates from one language and culture into […]
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I’ve never recanted before but—as my view of Graham Greene’s […]
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A happy coincidence with the Easter just passed was the […]
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I pray for each good priest who subjugates his will […]
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