July-August 2016 Volume LX no78, No. 528
Our Home is Girt by Sea
‘No One I Know Voted To Leave’
The Epitaph To Be Written
The Legend of the Nurturing State
The Illiberal Left and Political Islam
The Next President and the Long War
Contents
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SIR: Professor Michael Evans (June 2016) appears to be writing […]July 1, 2016
15 mins
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Those who backed Brexit were deemed ex officio provincial and xenophobic, seeking to have done with the European Union because they hate foreigners and want to pull up the drawbridge. They were, as usual, slandered thoroughly by their presumed betters
July 1, 2016
8 mins
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On June 4, 1975, I sat down at my clattering […]
July 1, 2016
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As popular anxieties spiral, fashionable scapegoats are wheeled out for ritual blame and politicians of a certain stripe proffer the salves and balms of bigger, more intrusive government. Never prescribed are hard work, strong-minded enterprise, dogged initiatiative and spirited self-relianceJuly 28, 2016
24 mins
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How did the marriage of political Islam and the Left come to be? Look first to the West’s progressive media, academics and agenda-driven elites -- the standard coterie of cultural engineers who oppose free speech, spurn history's lessons and defame all who disagreeAugust 15, 2016
14 mins
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Before the massacres in Orlando and Nice, Daryl McCann considered the ramifications and likely response of the White House's next occupant to the slaughter of another 14 innocents by an Islamist couple in San Bernardino. As France reels yet again, his insights are no less relevantJuly 16, 2016
12 mins
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Despite the evident failure of leftist social theory, so-called ‘establishment’ conservatives have failed to re-shape popular culture. One explanation is that ‘establicons’ blithely accept the moral authority of the ideas upon which their opponents' ideology is foundedAugust 1, 2016
18 mins
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Leftists welcome immigrants, whom they perceive as useful tools in their quest to dilute and diminish the British people's former sense of common history and culture. Curse you, Tony Blair, for quite deliberately fostering policies that have destroyed these forms of solidarityAugust 10, 2016
12 mins
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Those who wear compassion on their sleeves have no monopoly on concern for the poor. The only contention is about how best they can be helped. And whatever help is provided must be detached from any illusion that society can be rid of povertyAugust 24, 2016
18 mins
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State-endorsed euthanasia is a rejection of the duties we owe others and of the claims others have upon us. It is both a dangerous falsehood and a threat to the social and legal norms underpinning civil society, a myth that must be resisted by all who value human dignityAugust 11, 2016
17 mins
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Anyone who has experienced what America’s ghettos are actually like will know that popular depictions of cops as racist oppressors are distortions and caricatures. These myths and the statistics that belie them are worth exploring in some detailJuly 10, 2016
15 mins
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If gay-rights proponents believe that redefining marriage will ultimately destroy it, as some of the campaign's more forthright advocates openly concede, defenders of traditional marriage most certainly cannot be cast as either alarmist or mean-spiritedAugust 17, 2016
15 mins
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It is time to abandon the sexist (and racially biased) paradigm that has hijacked the domestic violence debate, and to correct all the injustices caused by the politicisation of a tragic reality that affects countless adults and children, male and female alikeAugust 28, 2016
10 mins
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Medical practice has been turned on its head in the US, with the practitioner giving permission for a third party to advise on type and dose of cannabis. A gross perversion of sound and ethical medicine, moves to legalise 'medical marijuana' will see the same consequences hereAugust 18, 2016
12 mins
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The office of New South Wales Solicitor-General is a life appointment. May Michael Sexton continue to hold it for as long as he finds it fulfilling and may he continue to publish books as readable and compelling as his recent memoirAugust 22, 2016
25 mins
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Admired and reviled during his lifetime, his was a life of controversy and so remains. Early on he saw Marxism's atheistic and materialistic values as the greatest threat. Later, he saw the lack of commitment to any social values at all as equally destructiveAugust 31, 2016
10 mins
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In the debate between myself, Professor Geoffrey Bolton and Dr […]
July 1, 2016
6 mins
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Unlike other Eurasian civilisations where the growth of a Western-educated elite which had imbibed some of the messages of the Enlightenment allowed modernity and tradition to be reconciled, the prevailing Islamic reaction was that of the oyster: a resolute determination to close and sealSeptember 11, 2016
30 mins
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Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life by Gerard Kilroy Ashgate, 2015, […]
July 1, 2016
21 mins
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Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself by Sally Smith Wildy, […]
July 1, 2016
9 mins
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Joy Ride: The Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr […]
July 1, 2016
8 mins
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Jennifer Morag Henderson has written what is, surprisingly, the first biography of a writer much appreciated in life and oft overlooked in death. Throughout her novels genuineness battles phoniness and secrets are revealed-- an irony, really, given that MacKintosh herself remains such an elusive presenceSeptember 18, 2016
11 mins
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Jeffrey Smart was smitten by Italy in those tough years […]
July 1, 2016
44 mins
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More and more people will discover the Aborigine in themselves in the hope of something-for-nothing, even if in the end their only reward is the moral satisfaction of having been among the oppressed. Such is the lure of privilege that it turns minus into plusAugust 13, 2016
21 mins
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As I’ve grown older, and as my own artistic skills have developed in various directions, I now see that I have often made the mistake of looking for validation from people who were not able to give it. The monomath sees only his own reflectionAugust 27, 2016
10 mins
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Australian theatre generally ignored the overheated climate change conversation, and […]
July 1, 2016
11 mins
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The killing off of the position of Government Architect in […]
July 1, 2016
8 mins
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When, in the late 1980s, the legendary French director Bertrand […]
July 1, 2016
11 mins
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What exactly do we watch in Macbeth? Certainly there is […]
July 1, 2016
17 mins
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Nature writing is the new romanticism, as is bioethics; both […]
July 1, 2016
6 mins
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It is 8.00 a.m. in the Paris Metro. Packed. The […]
July 1, 2016
17 mins
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This was in a far distant land. There were Pilates […]
July 1, 2016
20 mins
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The ACT government would like people like us to trade our houses for flats, so that 'densification' can proceed. It keeps jacking up the rates to give us a push-along. My impression is that suburbia is even less fashionable among architects and town planners than it used to beSeptember 10, 2016
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Watching Billy after reading “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” by […]
July 1, 2016
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According to John They pester me to write it […]
July 1, 2016
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A Friendship i.m. Robert Ellis 1942–2016 Thrown out of […]
July 1, 2016
2 mins
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Cogitations at the Launderette My shirts spin round and […]
July 1, 2016
4 mins
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Apparition Something not right woke me from my dreaming. […]
July 1, 2016
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Riddle My son’s black kitten And my neighbour’s white kitten […]
July 1, 2016
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Father Pat In Memoriam Fr Patrick Cunningham 1903–1984 Father […]
July 1, 2016
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One day in the country The angry horse with […]
July 1, 2016
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Does the nun know? (Convents supplemented their incomes by lace […]
July 1, 2016
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We went to the holy bathing place where the spring […]
July 1, 2016
3 mins
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My Mother Disliked the Sea My mother disliked the […]
July 1, 2016
3 mins
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Away He Went My grief is a vine, strangling […]
July 1, 2016
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Mrs Bagnall Explains Magnesium In fourth year Chemistry, I […]
July 1, 2016
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