June 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 6
The Looming Prospect of a New Cold War
Bill Gibson, Cochlear Implant Hero
The Imperialist War That Wasn’t
Surrogacy and the Misbegotten Family
The New War of the Roses
Choose Your Ancestors Carefully
Contents
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In the June edition of Quadrant, Daryl McCann wrote of a weak US president and a ruthless Russian leader given to aggression and adventurism. The destruction of Flight MH17 over Ukraine makes that essay more prophecy than punditryJuly 20, 2014
21 mins
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The man with the rolled-up sleeves and sauce bottle behind the grill at Balmain Rotary's regular sausage sizzles is an unassuming sort of bloke. Few would guess that he has brought the sounds of the world to so manyJune 27, 2014
8 mins
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The Great War prompted an unprecedented crisis in the world socialist movement because it revealed that a foundational principle of its existence—proletarian internationalism—was an illusion. But not to worry, fresh myths were easy enough to fabricateJune 25, 2014
27 mins
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Making a baby for oneself is easy nowadays. The industry has gone offshore and Third World wombs are cheap to hire, so surrogate farms are growing babies like cabbages. "Families" can be whatever the latest whim or fashion decreesJune 19, 2014
27 mins
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What might be called the latest eruption of "the Darwin Wars" are a subset of a broader conflict. Funding and status are at stake. These days, unless you can demonstrate what you are doing is “scientific”, your likelihood of attracting support is very lowJune 16, 2014
20 mins
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Neither huge spending on higher education nor even mass-scale totalitarian murder of millions made a difference. Regardless of the methods embraced, all government schemes conceived to increase social mobility have ended in failureJune 14, 2014
13 mins
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Disgruntled activist-journalists might prefer us to believe that we are neither free nor competent to express our views for ourselves -- because then we must look to them to speak, protest, vandalise, hector, bully and obfuscate on our behalf.June 10, 2014
15 mins
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There are no such people as Palestinians and there never have been. Nor was there ever a state called Palestine or a Palestinian culture or a Palestinian language. If truth prevails over the left's revisionist history, Palestine will never be more than the name of a geographical regionJune 7, 2014
6 mins
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Why would numerous renowned economists think this book profound? Do they genuinely believe that capitalism's future can be plotted against two simplistic assertions? That the author's shallow insights are being so hailed tells us much about the sad state of the Dismal Science and its practionersJune 3, 2014
18 mins
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Proving the falsity of strongly held beliefs is never easy. It can only happen in a climate of unrestricted speech and unfettered research. The real problem for Australia today is not the law as it stands but the fact that these conditions are so rareJune 2, 2014
8 mins
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A Cornishman Addresses His Metal You riddler of the […]June 1, 2014
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The Ballad of the Gangster Paul Kelly Quiet down […]
June 1, 2014
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Sainte-Chapelle Just as a master glassmaker must rest […]
June 1, 2014
5 mins
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15/10/03: Poetry and foreign relations Guests of the Egyptian embassy, […]
June 1, 2014
12 mins
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Beneath the Mountain Ash The winding track is lightly […]
June 1, 2014
3 mins
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One of the darkest legends from the so-called golden years […]
June 1, 2014
10 mins
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Morning blackbird on the lawn The raised square […]
June 1, 2014
4 mins
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Australia and the Fall of Saigon With the formal and […]
June 1, 2014
34 mins
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The federal Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, is justifiably concerned that […]
June 1, 2014
16 mins
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The Peter Elliott Collection of Australian Art by Gavin Fry […]
June 1, 2014
10 mins
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Consecration i.m. the Kyoto martyrs, 1619 On the wind’s […]
June 1, 2014
1 mins
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Marilyn’s Coat To look less like a gypsy, the […]
June 1, 2014
3 mins
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As the distinguished guests queued to meet the French president, […]
June 1, 2014
36 mins
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The Universe Within by Neil Turok Allen & Unwin, 2013, […]
June 1, 2014
8 mins
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The British: A Genetic Journey by Alistair Moffat Birlinn, 2013, […]
June 1, 2014
6 mins
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Gombrich: The search for objectivity Two young émigrés who fled […]
June 1, 2014
31 mins
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What the woodwork reveals Walking with a limp, a […]
June 1, 2014
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Sir: The people who champion so-called anti-hate-speech laws talk as […]
June 1, 2014
3 mins
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Shadows and Reflections Stirring on the couch this August […]
June 1, 2014
4 mins
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Many visitors to the Ryan living room, going back to […]
June 1, 2014
8 mins
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From Adelaide to Alice Springs This is a kind of […]
June 1, 2014
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William Goldman looked at Brigitte Bardot’s bottom and saw the […]
June 1, 2014
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