November 2018 Volume LXII, Number 11, No. 551
Slogans and Tyranny
The Three Waves Myth
Donald Trump, He Grows on You
The New Confessionalism
America’s Poor White Trash
Modernity’s Miracle II: Practical and Romantic Nations
Contents
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Sir: It is one of history’s great ironies that the […]October 30, 2018
5 mins
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Morrison should reference the best recent formulation of Australian identity […]
October 30, 2018
11 mins
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The ferocity and unfairness of the Democrats' attack on Brett Kavanaugh unified Republicans ahead of next week's midterms. With few exceptions all but the most diehard Never-Trumpers responded by saying to themselves: Compared to these people, Trump isn't so bad after all
November 2, 2018
8 mins
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Hardly a week goes by without some famous person or other revealing one detail or other of his disreputable personal life, whereupon there is an outpouring of praise for his candour and an avalanche of similar confessions. We have given up fortitude and replaced it with psychobabbleDecember 5, 2018
8 mins
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Since Trump's election the centre of gravity in the Republican Party has moved in the direction of the lower-middle and working classes. As ballots in the November 6 midterms are cast and tallied, a guide to the lineage of the lubbers, hicks, crackers and obsquatulators who may well decide it
November 6, 2018
25 mins
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The way contemporary political debate quickly descends into outrage and foot-stamping reminds us of the limits of reason. You can argue all you wish about “equality”, yet equality exists only in the company of inequality just as freedom does in the company of necessityNovember 28, 2018
45 mins
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The rise of identity politics and political correctness is seeing old battles re-fought, with bossy new ubergangsters advocating Soviet-style textual censorship with hackneyed arguments soundly discredited decades ago. Worse, timid vice-chancellors cave in at the slightest nudgeNovember 11, 2018
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China is carefully expanding its naval presence and its accepted waters, as other nations do little to counter its salami tactics. Slice by slice it is building its territory. Aggressive manoeuvring by its warships, as seen in the recent 'paint-scraping' games of chicken with US vessels is very much part of that effortNovember 27, 2018
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To make it easier for Western dupes such as Corbyn to the peddle activist-Salafists as fighters for freedom, Hamas revised its charter last year. No longer is it a religious war but, instead, an anti-colonial struggle against Zionist occupiers -- a handy if tiny fig leaf for concealing the modern Left's increasingly evident disdain for JewsNovember 22, 2018
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The alienated intelligentsia detest their own culture and heritage. That’s why the sneering secularists—who have joined the pile-on with respect to Christian believers—all but ignore Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhists believers.
When the likes of David Marr sneer at 'what’s happening in Roman Catholic presbyteries' the only response is to fight back with argument based on factsNovember 21, 2018
23 mins
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William Wilberforce, Jeremy Bentham and Adam Smith knew the new colony only by report, but their ideas and influence shaped the foundations of the nation to come with a liberalism that endured beyond the era of broad arrows and the lashNovember 30, 2018
25 mins
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David Kemp’s account of Australian liberalism is exceedingly interesting. He […]
October 30, 2018
18 mins
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Immigration is very much the topic of the moment, with an increasingly vocal body of opinion asserting that intakes are both too high and not necessarily consisting of those able or willing to assimilate and contribute. Patrick Morgan in his new book lays out how things have changedNovember 20, 2018
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When Enid Burnell announced her intention to marry the man who would become Australia's tenth prime minister, her family’s Methodist preacher implored her not to give up the 'faith of your father'. She was undeterred and together, by virtue of example and principle, they did much to diminish the anti-Catholicism of their eraDecember 8, 2018
21 mins
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Family, friendship groups and literary circles become little oases in which communism is quietly, not violently, resisted. It was no accident that this pre-modern way of organising society emerged in communised country after countryNovember 26, 2018
15 mins
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With the start of the German Spring Offensive in March […]
October 30, 2018
23 mins
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“Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder,” wrote Arnold Toynbee. […]
October 30, 2018
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Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2017, […]
October 30, 2018
16 mins
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Distillations of Different Lands by Andrew Lansdown Sunline Press, 2018, […]
October 30, 2018
6 mins
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John Russell: Australia’s French Impressionist edited by Wayne Tunnicliffe Thames […]
October 30, 2018
9 mins
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[An] assassin, dressed as a mailman, murdered a former Iranian […]
October 30, 2018
16 mins
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A proud Sicilian, a literary enthusiast (favourite authors include Georges […]
October 30, 2018
19 mins
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Do I believe in ghosts, I am often asked, and […]
October 30, 2018
9 mins
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Jaynee, the live-in maid next door, has the sexiest bottom […]
October 30, 2018
13 mins
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Donald Trump shrewdly realised the positive power of negative protests and encouraged every Democrat crank and crackpot in the land to rally outside his campaign stops. It is wrong to say leftist protests never deliver results. They do. But rarely for leftistsNovember 24, 2018
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The Stuffed Crocodile The stuffed crocodile in the Darwin museum […]
October 30, 2018
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You have been driving across the high plains throughout the […]
October 30, 2018
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Lullaby for a Battered Child Toys in darkness far away, […]
October 30, 2018
3 mins
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from Huntingdonshire Codices Dry sorrel, teasel, grasses flattened by […]
October 30, 2018
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Great Poems Condensed Saint Agnes Eve—ah, bitter chill it […]
October 30, 2018
3 mins
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Shortbread And Wine On the table sparkle chinks of crystalled […]
October 30, 2018
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Morning Tea in the Garden After the grass was […]
October 30, 2018
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A Lump of Clay I brought back a lump of […]
October 30, 2018
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Parallel Universes I was greeted in the lobby by […]
October 30, 2018
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Pilgrim’s postcards 1 Each feature of geography is vast. […]
October 30, 2018
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