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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
Heidegger’s Curse: Postmodern Anti-Semitism
The Black Notebooks confirm that Heidegger supported National Socialism not despite its barbaric methods [the Death Camps, the SS, the Gestapo, the “War of Annihilation” …] but because of them! —Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins, 2022
To the Jews, seen as the rootless agents of Modernity … Heidegger imputed the gravest guilt: the oblivion of Being. The Jew was a sign of the end of everything, impeding the rise of a new beginning.—Donatella Di Cesare, Heidegger and the Jews, 2016
With Heidegger, the question is: what future is there for a thinking that sees in “world Judaism” a destructive power of history—a form of destruction that ultimately destroys history itself? —Peter Trawny, Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy, 2015
The current outbreak of anti-Semitism, centred on the universities, has become a very revealing portal through which can be seen the full horrific scale of the crisis of the humanities, arts and social sciences in Western…
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
