January-February 2017 Volume LXI, Numbers 1-2, No. 533
Neo-Feudalists and Dismantlers
Curses Be Upon the Sweaty Masses
Dissonance, Emotional and Cognitive
The Anglosphere’s Quiet Revolution
Why We Need a Conservative Spring
It’s Freedom, Stupid
Contents
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SIR: The European media sighs with relief as the nationalist […]January 1, 2017
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One glaring characteristic of many Remain bitter-enders is their imagined superiority to Leave voters, some some thinking themselves cleverer, others more cosmopolitan. That self-confidence contrasts with the modest intellectual quality of their argumentsJanuary 4, 2017
8 mins
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How can we waste our compassion on someone who is responsible for her own misfortune? Are there not enough people in the world who are victims of misfortune, injustice and cruelty for us not to bother with those whose misery is self-inflicted?January 18, 2017
8 mins
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Brexit represents a remarkable historical moment for the possibilities it opens up. Many of these will not be realised, but the ones that are realised will work because enough people will say 'No' to depressive political economies and 'Yes' to the spirit of endeavour, adventure and resolutionFebruary 14, 2017
39 mins
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We need to paint a compelling vision of a conservative future -- and bring people with us on the journey. It must be positive, hopeful and optimistic, detailing what we are for, not simply what we are against. And it must be built on our core values: freedom, opportunity and human dignityFebruary 10, 2017
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Allowing people to decide what to do with their own money and to strive after the station they wish to attain has proved a far more effective system of running human affairs. Far from protecting the powerful, capitalism actually makes them vulnerableJanuary 21, 2017
10 mins
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The entire publicity apparatus of the media and government was enlisted to make a vote for him appear futile. Now poised to take power, many previously silent supporters will come out of the woodwork. His prospects of political success may be correspondingly largerJanuary 12, 2017
9 mins
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The Left once valorised the working class but has now abandoned them, with 'racism' an area where sneering at those coping with economic change and societal upheaval is most pronounced. That mirth soured after Brexit and we may well see the same bitter harvest of shock and surprise in AustraliaFebruary 23, 2017
17 mins
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US academic John Greenway first visited Australia in 1955, finding himself enthralled by the country in general and Aborigines in particular. Gloriously opinionated, enthusiastic and entirely admirable, his often grim truths have seen him 'disremembered' for being far too honestJanuary 24, 2017
15 mins
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In his witty and eminently readable memoir, Privilege and Pleasure […]
January 1, 2017
15 mins
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Witnessing four decades of rapid economic growth and relative political […]
January 1, 2017
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The third volume of ASIO's official history is finely produced and has the uncanny appearance of a serious, worthwhile book. Between the covers, the text brings to mind fingernails pulled along a blackboard -- and that is one of its better qualitiesFebruary 4, 2017
29 mins
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While ISIS ransacks the Middle East and the intolerable fundamentalist Muslim communities in Western cities are ignored by the Left, Muslim children suffer immeasurably. They will continue to suffer until the Western world finally recognises that the underlying problem is IslamFebruary 1, 2017
20 mins
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The reconstruction of the past is not an end in […]
January 1, 2017
32 mins
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Too many historians completely dismiss the first months of World War II as a period which saw the Allied powers sit on their hands, doing little while passively awaiting Germany to make the first move. Nothing could be further from the truthFebruary 26, 2017
37 mins
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Australians did not regard discipline as a synonym for blind obedience, there had to be a reason for it, and what came to pass aboard an overcrowded troopship made that point in 1919. Today, something has changed. If told to imitate goldfish, that's what Australians doApril 25, 2017
39 mins
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David Hume was secretary, and finally chargé, at the British […]
January 1, 2017
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Per capita we now turn out more law graduates than the US, yet the number of schools teaching a compulsory jurisprudence course can be counted on one hand. The venerable notion that it is vital for students to learn why rights are correlated to duties is going by the boardFebruary 22, 2017
13 mins
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The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition […]
January 1, 2017
15 mins
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Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt Templeton […]
January 1, 2017
17 mins
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Switzerland, land of mountains, cow bells and counting-house gnomes, has long charmed visitors with its promise to honour every cliche and meet all standard expectations. Two new books serve as pointed reminders that it is not always charming from the insideJanuary 28, 2017
10 mins
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The Vandemonian Trail: Convicts and Bushrangers in Early Victoria by […]
January 1, 2017
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A fine recent documentary on Harry Seidler by Daryl Dellora […]
January 1, 2017
11 mins
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If you are a certain age and come from an […]
January 1, 2017
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The National Gallery Victoria's celebration of haute couturiers Victor & Rolf reminds us that high fashion must be distinguished from the “celebrity culture” that threatens to engulf it. As Christian Dior once put it, dressmaking is 'one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable'February 18, 2017
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It was perhaps providential that the Diocesan Book Society closed when it did, rather than see it forced to adapt and accommodate the modern world of book merchandising. It was nice to know that you could look at books for hours and no one seemed to care whether you bought anythingFebruary 19, 2017
32 mins
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All that remains to me are memories of the violets' scent, an abiding admiration for my grandmother's strength and courage, Sin Yung's utter joy in his work and, of course, Jack from the humpy by the creek who left no footprint on the earth that he trodFebruary 12, 2017
9 mins
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For those of us whose schoolboy French is not up […]
January 1, 2017
9 mins
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Arrival I was awakened by a jolt in the rhythm […]
January 1, 2017
35 mins
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So sure are we of the benefits of managed trade that we do little to maintain even those industries where we enjoy a comparative advantage. Access to cheap power, for example, is becoming a memory as green policies distort the market and hobble the use of coalJanuary 29, 2017
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Steam Bath World North, towards Polaris primates born near zero […]
January 1, 2017
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In Celebration of Great Australian Racehorses In early colonial […]
January 1, 2017
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Tucker’s Caravan We were out in the Morris one […]
January 1, 2017
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Lying on a Harbour Beach at Noon There is […]
January 1, 2017
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Hearing Jack Read Jack stood out from other kids […]
January 1, 2017
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Stringybark Poems He left his imprint on the hills […]
January 1, 2017
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Ozymandias’s Harbourside Mansion I met a traveller from Menzies Land, Who […]
January 1, 2017
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And On a Day Soon There are the shit […]
January 1, 2017
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Going through private papers Paper was used to remember […]
January 1, 2017
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Olive Pink Reader, I’d never heard of her before […]
January 1, 2017
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Donald Duck Donald, when will you learn to duck […]
January 1, 2017
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Ukrainian Baba My grandmother held the sun in her […]
January 1, 2017
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Dream-ballad Last night I dreamed I merely died then […]
January 1, 2017
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Heron i Treading the marsh with the grace […]
January 1, 2017
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Higher Learning The Chancellor at XYU Does not have […]
January 1, 2017
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