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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Andrew Leggett: My Father Came Back
My Father Came Back
My father came back from the grave.
He broke his silence with an unknowing look.
He said, “Son, you’re old and bald and fat.”
“Thanks, Dad! You’re not at your best.
Those eighteen years under the hill
have not treated you kindly,” was all I said.
He did not take umbrage. There was no fight
in him. He had become the kind of spook
I could poke right through, like a hole in my hat.
“To have become like you, is that so bad?”
With no comfort to offer, without a sound,
he withdrew from the mirror, back underground.
Andrew Leggett
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
