September 2015 Volume LIX, Number 9, No. 519
Great days in Sydney
Honouring Robert Conquest
The Fall of the Meritocracy
Robert Conquest and Quadrant
Robert Conquest and the Whisper of History
Elizabeth of 23,227 Days…and Counting
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SIR: Short-term memory loss has led to my buying the […]September 1, 2015
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The leftist political prejudice in Whitehall and the wider British establishment is as undeniable as the repeated and shameful shunning of Robert Conquest, chronicler of Soviet evil. As one wag put it: anti-communism may die, but anti-anti-communism lives foreverSeptember 9, 2015
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The left loathes the concept of IQ -- especially the claim that it helps to determine socio-economic status, rather than vice versa -- because of a near-religious attachment to the idea that man is a piece of clay that can be moulded into any shape by societySeptember 7, 2015
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A lively exchange within the Quadrant circle erupted a few […]
September 1, 2015
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Even when he was well, and merely old instead of […]
September 1, 2015
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The coolness, sagacity and restraint of Elizabeth II have been matched by her constancy and diligence -- day in and day out, from February 5, 1952. Now Britain's longest-serving monarch, she honours yet her pledge to place duty above allSeptember 11, 2015
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The Labour Party is a self-consciously progressive party dominated by highly educated people who believe they understand the world and its problems better than anyone else. Jeremy Corbyn is the distilled essence of that otherworldly arroganceSeptember 13, 2015
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The US President's actions in striking his pact with the messianic potentates of Tehran have not only guaranteed the nuclearisation of Iran, “the biggest planetary sponsor of terrorism”, but also hindered the chances of Israel preventing this catastropheSeptember 16, 2015
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For an architect whose abstract ideas were, he assured us, very so important, he wasn’t much of a thinker. His notions were to real thought what doggerel is to genuine poetry -- a catalogue of inaccuracy, looseness, laziness and mendacity, all covered in a thick sauce of arrogant self-confidenceSeptember 27, 2015
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I am drawn to his pale complexion and the large […]
September 1, 2015
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Much of the intelligentsia has turned against the West's high-cultural tradition that has sought the true, the beautiful and the good. Rather, it has set to assailing our customs, traditions and institutions, with issues -- refugees are the latest -- taken up as cudgels to assault the civic orderSeptember 4, 2015
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Guns and Marriage, Go Together in the Amended Madisonian Carriage: […]
September 1, 2015
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“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”. […]
September 1, 2015
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From the Baltic to the Middle East the threats are rising, yet across the Anglosphere defence budgets are slashed and a blind eye turned to perils that range from Russian adventurism to Islamic aggression. Never have so many been protected by so fewSeptember 30, 2015
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Who established the VCE? Quadrant’s writers and readers are an […]
September 1, 2015
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The University of Sydney was not unfamiliar ground for me […]
September 1, 2015
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23/5/00 The ghosts that walk beside us Today a postcard […]
September 1, 2015
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The accusation against George Brandis was damning: “When I met […]
September 1, 2015
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Bobby Dylan is protesting and I’m not. —Rod McKuen, 1967 […]
September 1, 2015
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A critic begins to feel his age when films he […]
September 1, 2015
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She was about eight inches tall, with well-formed breasts, hair […]
September 1, 2015
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Qui est Charlie? Sociologie d’une crise religieuse by Emmanuel Todd […]
September 1, 2015
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The Neuhaus Moment Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the […]
September 1, 2015
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He died almost exactly half a century ago, but don’t […]
September 1, 2015
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Parental Job Swap Sitting next to his flagon on the […]
September 1, 2015
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Far Away and Long Ago For old, unhappy, far […]
September 1, 2015
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How Close to Calligraphy For Robert Gray Through the […]
September 1, 2015
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Notes from a Cronulla homecoming Yearning for the places of […]
September 1, 2015
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re: the plums “I have eaten the plums that were […]
September 1, 2015
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We Boomer Boys We boomer boys were once The […]
September 1, 2015
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Alzheimers The shell’s there, the smile The familiar mannerisms The […]
September 1, 2015
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From Angle To Les You’ll know from the pause […]
September 1, 2015
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Odds On Marriage for love at my age seems highly […]
September 1, 2015
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The Kathak Dancer, Mandawa. Holi 2002 (for Lyn) One night […]
September 1, 2015
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Compatibility They used to meet, the old men, by […]
September 1, 2015
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