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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
NILFs: Men At Work
Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis
by Nicholas Eberstadt
Templeton Press, 2016, 205 pages, US$12.95
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This is a smart, unsettling, fact-packed book. Its message is sobering. Beware of letting prime working-age males fall out of the workforce into gloomy pension-feathered indolence. America has done it. The consequences are disconcerting to say the least. Eberstadt begins by noting something basic, so basic in fact that it looms over everything else in the book. Put simply, America is a wealth-generating machine. Yet no longer is it a wage-work-producing leviathan. Wealth creation and job creation have parted company. That is the most crucial social fact of our age.
Governments that fail to understand the uncoupling of wealth-making and wage-labour fail to grasp the tectonic rearrangement that has occurred in the social landscape over the past six decades. As is so often the case, America has led the way for the rest of the world….
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
