November 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 511
More than values
Spooked Beyond Reason
The Children of Delusion
The Case for Smothering ISIS in its Sandpit
The Case Against the New Iraq War
White Swords and Black Pages: The Damnatio Memoriae of Abu Tammam
Contents
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SIR: Edwin Dyga (October 2014) distinguishes political conservatism (as practised […]November 1, 2014
3 mins
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Section 35P of the National Security Amendment Bill prompted the usual suspects, and some who should know better, to fits of frothing about Australia's police state and jackboots in the night. Once again, as we have seen so often when ASIO is mentioned, hysteria was trumping historyNovember 1, 2014
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Saul Bellow observed that “a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep”. He might easily have been talking about those Australians on the left who burn votive candles in honour of their parents' devotion to Moscow's cause
November 1, 2014
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Were we to do nothing as ISIS's barbarism marches across Syria and Iraq, the West would be embracing the same passive indifference the United States adopted between the two world wars, an isolationism that stood by as the creeds of Bolshevism and Nazism rose to global powerNovember 4, 2014
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The mission to degrade and destroy the jihadist terrorof the self-styled Islamic State sounds like a noble and just cause, but the process of eradicating what is essentially a disparate group of Sunni militants is both complicated and fraught with the danger of unintended consequencesNovember 4, 2014
21 mins
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Heavens, what a pile! Whole ages perish there, And one […]
November 1, 2014
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If the polls are to be believed, the most troublesome deficit confronting the Prime Minister is his failure to inspire the electorate's enthusiasm. Yet, perversely, it is the enmity of his critics' flawed and partisan appraisals that confirm him as the best and most competent man to occupy The LodgeNovember 19, 2014
23 mins
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You can have fun with the spy game, as happened […]
November 1, 2014
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At the beginning of September comes the rentrée, as […]
November 1, 2014
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The mark of a good citizen used to be the free display of personal conviction about ideas, beliefs and morals. That manifestation of conviction has given way to a fashionable and ostentatious “open-mindedness” which, steeped in hypocrisy, seldom extends to traditional Christianity, especially CatholicismNovember 22, 2014
21 mins
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Sir Henry Wotton, a seventeenth-century English diplomat, defined an ambassador […]
November 1, 2014
29 mins
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Certain people appear in history destined to accomplish one great task. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Australia’s official war correspondent in the Great War, was one such specimen -- the man ordained by time and circumstance to craft and shape the Anzac legendNovember 11, 2014
28 mins
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There was a time when wowsers brought hatchets and a sense of mission to their attacks on Demon Rum. These days, while the zeal of the righteous crusader remains undiminished, a study peppered with dubious statistics and curious omissions is the weapon of choiceNovember 10, 2014
18 mins
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Hannah Arendt was a pre-war Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany […]
November 1, 2014
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In January 2013 Fred Myers, Silver Professor of Anthropology at […]
November 1, 2014
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Nicholas Hasluck delivered this speech at the launching in Perth […]
November 1, 2014
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Many of Kate Grenville's readers have received the message loud and clear. They are only too willing to take on the burden of guilt, secure from the need to do anything about it. They are comfortable with being uncomfortableNovember 13, 2014
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Fort Apache is set in the aftermath of the US […]
November 1, 2014
39 mins
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I discovered Margaret Atwood not long after she’d won the […]
November 1, 2014
21 mins
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A film version of a great opera that realises its […]
November 1, 2014
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It’s of no consequence, says the stranger on the plane, […]
November 1, 2014
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It is beyond bizarre that activists prattle about freeing the world from the “tyranny of oil”, the most cost-efficient and convenient of all energy sources. The phrase makes as much sense as the “tyranny” of physicsNovember 28, 2014
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Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne Text Publishing, 2014, 327 pages, […]
November 1, 2014
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I hope, in my piece last month, I didn’t gush […]
November 1, 2014
8 mins
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Coming to Grips How can we handle what’s been […]
November 1, 2014
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Sitting beside my letterbox, a large and elderly frog, slack-bellied […]
November 1, 2014
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A Bunch of Flowers for Saint Valentine’s Day Sweet […]
November 1, 2014
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Photograph of Albert Like a mug shot without a […]
November 1, 2014
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If Life Were a Sonnet If Life were a […]
November 1, 2014
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Gifts after Czeslaw Milosz A day of pilgrimage. The […]
November 1, 2014
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Digbeth Bistro (Stow-in-the-Wold) I’m choosing chorizo salad and the […]
November 1, 2014
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In the Škocjan Caves, Divača, Slovenia A drop of […]
November 1, 2014
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Blessed and Certain The most profound and moving experience […]
November 1, 2014
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i hate poems about poetry some poets get to […]
November 1, 2014
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Vegan One day, beyond the eyes of cattle, the […]
November 1, 2014
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If Good News Sold Newspapers If good news sold […]
November 1, 2014
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The Bad Banker’s Confessions to Good Granny Birdseed From […]
November 1, 2014
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