December 2013 Volume LVII, No. 12
The Decline Of The Suburban Church
Jesus: A Classical Perspective
Indigenous Recognition’s Misguided Case
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Rise and Fall
The Marriage Wars
Homo Erectus; Through a Glass
Contents
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Places of worship are closing for no other reason than that the people who live around them no longer attend. It’s where the closures are happening that is new—in predominantly Anglo-Saxon middle-class suburbs that were once the heartland of mainstream denominationsDecember 22, 2013
24 mins
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The mind of Jesus—literate and hence in some sense schooled—almost certainly included a spot not only for Tiberius among the eminent Romans of his day but also for Sejanus as the de facto executive power at RomeDecember 22, 2013
13 mins
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The genuine ground for recognising indigenous peoples—that doing so would establish historical truth about the country’s origins—also applies to British settlement and the original Anglo nation which gave Australia its nameDecember 20, 2013
56 mins
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In their short time in office, the Islamic Brotherhood threw all soothing talk of consensus and democracy to the wind. What emerged was a regime for which President Obama retains some apparent sympathy, putting him in marked contrast to the Egyptian peopleDecember 12, 2013
16 mins
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Why did a compassionate tolerance of homosexuality encourage a savage assault on the traditional familial concept of the union of man and woman?
December 9, 2013
31 mins
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Through a Glass Old glass was spun in circles, […]December 1, 2013
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Little Grandpa Train Ride Not quite Casey Jones my […]
December 1, 2013
2 mins
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To mark our 500th issue in October, Quadrant held a celebration dinner at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour on Wednesday, October 16, attended by 180 guests. Several people spoke to mark the occasion
December 1, 2013
32 mins
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I wrote in the June Quadrant (“Why Defence Will Not […]
December 1, 2013
12 mins
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Piping Plovers Across from Charles Island I followed as […]
December 1, 2013
2 mins
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Till eleven o’clock you are perfumed in the sweat you […]
December 1, 2013
1 mins
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Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today by Philip Cunningham, […]
December 1, 2013
20 mins
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Peter Smith’s October essay (“The Free Market—Efficient, Amoral, and Ready […]
December 1, 2013
15 mins
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The pictures are 130 years old but they are stark […]
December 1, 2013
26 mins
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We are minutes into Act Two of Vere (Faith) by […]
December 1, 2013
11 mins
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Annie believed that all people were inherently good. She was […]
December 1, 2013
22 mins
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Till eleven o’clock you are perfumed in the sweat you […]
December 1, 2013
1 mins
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The space you inhabit for Jacob Rosenberg i.m. 1922–2008 […]
December 1, 2013
2 mins
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Carpe Diem in Balmain (Homage to Horace, Odes, 1.11) […]
December 1, 2013
2 mins
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Having overcome the social stigma attached to homosexual practices, at […]
December 1, 2013
13 mins
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SIR: I thank Dr Renton-Power (Letters, October 2013) for his […]
December 1, 2013
15 mins
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The forgotten man in commentary on John Ford in the […]
December 1, 2013
16 mins
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Hal G.P. Colebatch paints union militancy during World War II as the conceit of self-styled victims who deemed themselves exempt from the ordinary obligations of moral behaviour. All these years later that, the battles are different but the attitude remains familiar
December 1, 2013
8 mins
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These days it seems to require a Western intellectual to […]
December 1, 2013
21 mins
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The Shining was forced upon Stanley Kubrick by circumstances. Warner […]
December 1, 2013
34 mins
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The Quarrel with Self (Ne tibi supersis. May you not […]
December 1, 2013
2 mins
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Sixty-two years ago, Australia’s External Affairs Minister Percy Spender, New […]
December 1, 2013
11 mins
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The Usual: A Tribute (“He had an inestimable appreciation of […]
December 1, 2013
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