November 2016 Volume LX No 11, No. 531
Letter to My Son
America’s Choice
Putting on the Dog
The Break-Up of Australia: Part I
The Family Stories of the Behrendts
Politics, Civilisation and Survival
Contents
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Dear Vincent, I saw your Facebook posting of the complaint […]November 1, 2016
11 mins
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Mrs Clinton is plainly a globalist like President Obama, Donald Trump an opponent—if not the best one. But this election will not decide the issue which of its nature pits most voters against the progressive elites. It’s your politics for the next centuryNovember 6, 2016
9 mins
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The fashion for ugly, squarish dogs that look menacing and unappealing have joined the tattoos sported in certain areas of our towns and cities as symbols of ugliness and menace. They are to most dogs what cudgels are to walking sticks
November 1, 2016
8 mins
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From Quadrant's November edition, now on sale, the first excerpt of Keith Windschuttle's investigation of the Recognition movement, its motives and objectives: political autonomy, traditional law and values, and sovereignty over a separate state -- in effect, a nation within a nationNovember 1, 2016
28 mins
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Andrew Bolt was attacked and ridiculed for factual errors when exploring Aboriginal biographies. In this regard he has company, as one of the most vocal assailants in the infamous 'white Aborigines' trial appears no less ignorant of her antecedentsNovember 26, 2016
27 mins
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Neither the Right nor the Left is doing a good job of defending, representing or embodying the values of our civilisation. Meanwhile, our public opinion is seduced by the dream of a world without enemies, by the pathologies of relativism—cultural, moral and epistemologicalNovember 10, 2016
22 mins
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Assad’s destruction of Aleppo, the gassing of his one-time citizens and the barbarities of the Islamic State to human beings and to monuments, such as the Hellenistic city of Palmyra, follow directly from President Obama’s decision to leave the various Muslim forces free to do their worst to each otherDecember 4, 2016
11 mins
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One of the current problems with international relations is that no single set of rules can deal adequately with players setting their own rules. Think about it: Do the same expectations prevail when negotiating with, say, Iran as with our amiable cousins across the Tasman?December 11, 2016
16 mins
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Central Europeans see certain Western tendencies—political correctness, the rejection of Judeo-Christian tenets, including marriage and the family—as aberrations. Contrasting attitudes to centralised bureaucracy, migration and Islam bring that perspective into the sharpest focusDecember 5, 2016
12 mins
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As demonstrated by both Trump and Sanders, a key feature in the 2016 US election has been a populist narrative about how foreign governments and companies, in cahoots with political and institutional insiders, have wrought ruin upon the nationNovember 2, 2016
10 mins
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False allegations are sometimes made, whatever furious feminists may say, and we should not be impelled by the din of their anger into removing the safeguards quite deliberately built into our justice system with the intention of protecting those who have been unjustly accusedDecember 6, 2016
12 mins
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I thought Australians didn’t like us. We were always taught that Islam is all about temptation and being tested to prove your faith is unshakeable. Outsiders were to be kept away, because they were only coming to test us or try to change us, so we shouldn’t talk or engage with themOctober 31, 2016
33 mins
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Judges are supposed to be Parliament’s faithful agents seeking to implement its objectives, rather than joint law-makers. It is difficult to see how that judicial mission might be reconciled with the fundamental principle that it is elected representatives who make lawsDecember 20, 2016
23 mins
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Since restraining orders are granted 'ex parte' and no rules of evidence are properly applied, thousands of innocent people have been caught in police proceedings and evicted from their homes on the basis of edicts that grossly violate the most fundamental elements of due processDecember 9, 2016
18 mins
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I’m one of a dwindling band who can say, “I […]
November 1, 2016
15 mins
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The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A View from Europe by […]
November 1, 2016
17 mins
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The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe Jonathan Cape, 2016, […]
November 1, 2016
11 mins
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The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski University of Chicago […]
November 1, 2016
8 mins
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Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar Arena, 2015, 464 […]
November 1, 2016
8 mins
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Inside the Art Market: Australia’s Galleries 1956–1976 by Christopher Heathcote […]
November 1, 2016
8 mins
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With race-gender-class orthodoxies securely in command, there are more taboos on the imaginative faculty than ever, most notably and recently the alleged sin of 'cultural appropriation'. So much for E.M Forster, Kipling, T.S. Eliot, Puccini, Shakespeare....December 10, 2016
10 mins
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On May 28, 1498, following an audience with the king […]
November 1, 2016
15 mins
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Entirely overlooked by the Hollywood scriptwriters whose recent movie hailed the military unit that saved great works of art from Europe's rubble in the dying days of the World War II, Tom Dunbabin and John McDonnell deserve not merely to to be remembered but celebratedJanuary 8, 2017
12 mins
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3/1/15 Saturday makes review palaver From today’s reviews the poets […]
November 1, 2016
12 mins
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“Films these days move from one spectacular action scene to […]
November 1, 2016
7 mins
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Well-shaped gutters are running counter to the incoming tide when […]
November 1, 2016
20 mins
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When I was teaching, I would try to get students to run their own reliability tests on the sundry internet sites they would plunder in their search for essay material. 'As with any information,' I would intone, 'we must ask who is putting it before us, and what is their motivation in doing so?'December 18, 2016
7 mins
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On a Thin Gold Chain Opals have storms in […]
November 1, 2016
1 mins
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These balloons are okay The children were not at the […]
November 1, 2016
3 mins
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The Metaphor Anatomists insist that the heart is an organ; […]
November 1, 2016
2 mins
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Finnegans Wake For Conor Kenny In a pub in […]
November 1, 2016
2 mins
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Sweaty Maxims after Rio Sport, we know, is filled […]
November 1, 2016
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Playground Triumph I dreamt I couldn’t choose which arm […]
November 1, 2016
2 mins
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The tourist learns a lesson One evening in London, at […]
November 1, 2016
3 mins
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Can you write left-handed poetry? The clerk at the […]
November 1, 2016
1 mins
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The Hall After Grandma died the hall became a skeleton, […]
November 1, 2016
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Court in the act She led a life that […]
November 1, 2016
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I was a child who loved parrots everything my […]
November 1, 2016
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Women and Blossoms Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto 1 Confidence See […]
November 1, 2016
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