October 2018 Volume LXII, Number 10, No. 550
Organisational Virtue
Cartoon Characters
Risk, Morality and Liberties
Authoritarianism in Cement and Steel
Female, Male, Fe-Male
The New Struggle for Religious Freedom
Contents
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Sir: The article by Stuart Lindsay (September 2018) addresses attempts […]September 27, 2018
7 mins
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Within the long, honourable and peculiarly Australian tradition of hard-edged newspaper cartooning, John Spooner has marked out his own distinct ground. His new book, like his decades of published work, is a testament to wit, courage and the integrity of an independent mind
October 5, 2018
8 mins
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If you wish to live in a risk-free society, it is only logical to assume you will be increasingly reluctant to take risks. The Victorians were wiser. They knew your children will inherit a world in which the risks are far greater than those posed by, say, an e-cigarette
October 19, 2018
9 mins
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How can one fail to see the totalitarian sensibility in modernist architecture? The view of Man as a termite or even bacterium was implicit in all its advocates said and did. Take Le Corbusier, who detested anything and everything that escaped the 'rational' control of bureaucratic planners
November 4, 2018
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People happy in their home life don’t beat each other up. Nor do most men need to be told to respect women. You have only to look around you to see that even after years of feminist abuse and contempt, gallantry is still on offer, for those normal, un-angry women who are prepared to accept it
October 8, 2018
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Modern elites are tyrants of tolerance, saying: 'You must heed what I say, then either praise my virtue or shut up. If you try to say you disagree and why, you deserve to be, and you will be, hounded out of all decent society.' Thus do they pay lip-service, but only lip-service, to freedom of religion
October 10, 2018
30 mins
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Two decades ago, I sat down to write an essay […]
September 27, 2018
28 mins
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Even if you ignore the rancorous Brexit debate and Remainers' predictions that put the seven plagues of Egypt to shame, there have been plenty of entirely unrelated developments to make a Briton think seriously of buying a one-way ticket to the Antipodes or Americas
October 27, 2018
10 mins
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As Jonah Goldberg notes in his new book, the neo-primitivism that began with Rousseau has persuaded many who should know better that capitalism, industrialisation, urbanisation and materialism are the spiritual ills stripping our longer, comfortable Western lives of 'meaning'
October 30, 2018
60 mins
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When writer Sarah Jeong was hired by the New York Times and her history of ugly tweets about 'dumbass f-ing white people' came to light, the paper's exquisitely PC editors defended their Asian hire against her pallid critics. The melanin-challenged, you see, had it coming
October 11, 2018
16 mins
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A Florida woman took a huge loss rather than sell her home to a Trump supporter, yet one more indication how deep the lunacy has spread. After Obama, when the Left thought it had won once and for all, bitter disappointment has spawned a sweeping, often violent and ominous hysteriaOctober 16, 2018
12 mins
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To study 'the great texts' is to begin a lesson in contemporary humility, in the possibility of revelation, and in the realisation that even the wisest today know a relatively small amount. Studying the great texts is an antidote to bigotry and that wonderful Greek term 'xenophobia'October 22, 2018
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The Canadian professor's entire moral enterprise arose from his horror at the ease with which murderous ideologies came to possess ordinary people. Most of us look only briefly at that matter and others, unsettling as they are, but Peterson explores the very bases of such thought and beingOctober 25, 2018
18 mins
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When I suggested that aid incentivises rent-seeking and stasis among refugees in Lebanon, I was met with vituperation. The fact that I presented evidence harvested from on-the-ground inquiry was dismissed, as was my data. In academia, as I learned, ideology trumps evidence
October 23, 2018
16 mins
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Why would an American professor of psychology imagine she was once nearly raped by a handsome young man? Extensive research in her own field shows such a fantasy comes with her feminist territory
September 29, 2018
10 mins
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Regard Marxism as the economic equivalent of a dead language and it makes some sort of sense -- worthy of study for its place in the pantheon of human knowledge and doleful impact when implemented, but otherwise having no contemporary utility
October 24, 2018
19 mins
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My admiration for economists is limited. The solemnity of their […]
September 28, 2018
16 mins
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The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Volume 26: Essays, Articles […]
September 28, 2018
11 mins
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by […]
September 28, 2018
11 mins
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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern […]
September 28, 2018
15 mins
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The back story to Andrew Lloyd Webber's autobiography is creativity and business. It’s a telling moment in the Phantom when the owners of the haunted theatre are reminded they must pay their resident ghost. An Australian spectre would have had to apply to the Australia Council
October 28, 2018
10 mins
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Gore, vengeance, pillage and politics, all packaged by Netflix in a multi-season series depicting Alfred the Great's campaign to create what we now call England. How accurate, historically, is 'The Last Kingdom'? Accurate enough to make it more valuable than a mere entertainment
October 21, 2018
16 mins
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“These essays are an attempt to communicate a soul.” —Virginia […]
September 28, 2018
19 mins
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Traffic in Vietnam is 'organised chaos'. Double white lines are ignored, traffic lights turning red are regarded as suggestions rather edicts, and the reminders of the carnage can be harrowing. I think in particular of a dead little girl and the roadside memorial that chills me every time I ride past
October 14, 2018
5 mins
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Line editing was once a literary art form practised at […]
September 28, 2018
8 mins
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Galway Effigy Polished shoulders continue round the bowl to […]
September 28, 2018
1 mins
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Fear (after Joaquim Paco d’Arcos) Fear isn’t fear of […]
September 28, 2018
2 mins
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Stopping on the Oaky River Bridge for Kathryn Burns […]
September 28, 2018
3 mins
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Driving to Cicadas The cicadas’ song rises As I […]
September 28, 2018
1 mins
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Mosul Requiem 1 The sun, relentless, lights narrow alleys. Looking […]
September 28, 2018
4 mins
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Sleeping with the Enemy The insurgents are back in […]
September 28, 2018
1 mins
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London: Jubilee Line at Speed The Tube is an underground […]
September 28, 2018
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Bush Chinwag Why do we assume birdsong profound? Why don’t […]
September 28, 2018
2 mins
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Postcard Artist My outdoors is a vista of dots: […]
September 28, 2018
3 mins
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Change of Seasons on the Blue Sage Prairie A […]
September 28, 2018
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Living Will Two strangers certified your sound mind A […]
September 28, 2018
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Blown or beaten Blown or beaten, plucked or bowed, […]
September 28, 2018
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