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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
Jason Brennan: ‘Rosary in Clifton Park’
Rosary in Clifton Park
The silver cloths of mist which draped around
the bandstand, trees and bushes, wet her brow.
Her “clever son” would no doubt tell her how
her memory was stirred by sight and sound.
“Forget these nonsense thoughts of long ago.
There are no fairies, ’shee nor gentle folk.”
He’d cup her face then stroke her hand and joke
“Ma, you think they followed you from Sligo?”
And though she heard them chatter in the grass
and saw their shapes escorting her along
the hedgerows, she was never once afraid.
Before she left, the priest had said at Mass,
“The Queen of Peace can walk the Caves of Kesh.
So pure is she that even fiends obey.”
Jason Brennan
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
