March 2019 Volume LXIII, Number 3, No. 554
Another Passing Academic Fad
Culture and Suicide
A Europe Oblivious to its Fractures and Follies
It All Depends What You Mean By … ‘Why?’
The Chinese Delusion of a Greater Eurasia
North Korea’s Single-Minded Ambition
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Sir: Peter Baldwin’s exhaustive article (“The Inherent Racism of Identity […]February 28, 2019
7 mins
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Instead of the child sexual abuse identified by a 2008 coronial inquiry as a driver of youth suicide in remote Aboriginal communities, the latest finding prefers to blame 'colonisation'. The 'cultural healing program' urged as a solution will suit ideologues and activists but not children taking their own livesMarch 4, 2019
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IF YOU think you understand the current state of Brexit, […]
February 28, 2019
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The western taipan ranks high among the world's most poisonous snakes, though the purpose of such extraordinary and superfluous lethality defies any possible explanation I can conjure. Unlike the logic behind differing punishments for murder and mass murder, I am once more a child in my bafflementMarch 16, 2019
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Eurasianism, with its visions of transecting roads, pipelines and rail, may or may not be an impossible dream, but its revival sparks a bigger question: what’s the point in dreaming it at all? Wouldn’t Russia and China be better off developing their own countries instead?March 29, 2019
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That Donald Trump walked away from his summit with Kim Jong-Un should come as no surprise, as David Rowe explains in his backgrounder from the just-released March edition of Quadrant. For Pyongyang's hardheads, putting the economy first would be like Britain embarking on the welfare state before defeating Hitler.March 1, 2019
26 mins
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Fears about immigration tend to be dismissed by Austria’s liberal and socialist establishment as irrational and dangerous, given Vienna’s past. But there is a difference between those in the past who wanted nothing better than integration and those today whose attitude to Western culture and society is fundamentally hostileMarch 22, 2019
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Conversion therapy, the ALP and gender dysphoric children. IT APPEARED […]
February 28, 2019
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Australia is a multi-faith society where people of different faiths […]
February 28, 2019
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The anti-Trumpers are at liberty to list each and every point of purported similarity between the German monster and the elected occupant of the Oval Office. Those of us not plunged into derangement by Hillary Clinton's lost election are equally within our rights to marvel at what the constant allusions to Nazism says about themMarch 25, 2019
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By guaranteeing religious expression is neither neutered nor suppressed, a Religious Discrimination Act cans serve as a shield against what Archbishop Anthony Fisher has described as 'hard-edged secularism' and its entirely novel notion that spiritual expression needs to be removed from public lifeMarch 27, 2019
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People burble away, but give little thought to what they’re saying, or, more precisely, how they’re saying it. Take weather, for example, which once simply happened. Now the weather and elements of it are described as events, as though deliberately stagedMarch 21, 2019
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Living in the Keynesian world as we do, the only thought in the minds of policy-makers during the dark days of the global financial crisis was to pursue fiscal stimulus. Public spending was the near-universal response, with the near-universal consequence that economies across the world have continued to struggleMarch 6, 2019
20 mins
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IN THE December issue of Quadrant Adrian Williams used his […]
February 28, 2019
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At a time when Christianity is pictured so negatively, Greg Sheridan's new book offers important reminders of its comprehensive legacy to Western culture, highlighting the political significance of the idea of the individual, and a belief in universal human dignity that emanates from the Christian ennoblement of human lifeMarch 10, 2019
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THERE is a conventional wisdom, not entirely without foundation, that […]
February 28, 2019
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The Schlusser family, having rejected Stalin to side with Hitler and barely surviving the terrifying last years of the Reich, were rejected by the US before being accepted as migrants by Australia. Eugene Schlusser's rumination on his parents' choices and journey is a work penned in the ink of clarity and restraintMarch 31, 2019
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Roger Daltrey's 'Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite' will not win literary awards, but readers do get abundant and entertaining anecdotes from The Who vocalist about the Sixties' great attempt to remake the world and have a good time doing it. That attempt, we now know, was vain, the collateral damage vastMarch 23, 2019
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READERS of Quadrant will know what a splendid writer Tony Thomas is, […]
February 28, 2019
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Emphysema ended the life of Madeleine St John in 2006 at the age of just sixty four, a dozen years before Bruce Beresford finally found the backing to bring her 'The Women in Black' to the screen. How the reclusive and troubled author might have reacted can only guessed, but there is every chance she would bestowed her approvalMarch 30, 2019
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Eight key rulings by the Warren Court provided the straightforward premise for the Clint Eastwood movie and others: hobble a lone wolf street-smart cop with reforms reflecting a prudent respect for the Bill of Rights, set him on the trail of a crazed killer and see where the moral chips fallMarch 24, 2019
43 mins
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IT’S midsummer in Australia and the Somewheres are fighting bushfires. […]
February 28, 2019
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Four and a half decades after P.G. Wodehouse put down his pen, Ben Schott has brought literature’s oddest couple back to life. Jeeves and the King of Clubs is a triumph -- a near pitch-perfect restoration of the Master’s musical proseMarch 17, 2019
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The NGV holds a portrait that might or might not be by Vincent Van Gogh. If it is, it is worth a king's ransom; if not, a pittance. Provenance sleuth Antonio De Robertis is convinced the work is genuine -- and if he is correct, the NGV may well have to pay more than $5 million for a work it has held since 1940March 9, 2019
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THE joy of Florence in the European spring beckoned Tony […]
February 28, 2019
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FAST food is a delightful convenience, but to those of […]
February 28, 2019
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Ascent There is a stew, a simple meaty stew in […]
February 28, 2019
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Drought Travelling west the land burns but the sky withholds […]
February 28, 2019
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One twenty over eighty Systolic / Diastolic— I’m watching […]
June 30, 2017
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Avernus From hell there is no exit, no through road, […]
February 28, 2019
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In the Škocjan Caves, Divača, Slovenia A drop of […]
November 1, 2014
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An Interesting Cover There were two wrought-iron chairs in the […]
February 28, 2019
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The Pleasure It is my pleasure, the pleasure […]
April 1, 2016
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Condensing Jane Pride and Prejudice Poor Elizabeth Bennet, a honey […]
February 28, 2019
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