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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
Prayer for Pentecost
I pray for each good priest
who subjugates his will
to yours, who lays your feast
before me. Savior, still
the whirlwinds in their breasts.
Steady them for their tests.
Lord, hear my prayer.
I pray for virtuous men
who never knew your grace.
Each night I plead again,
“Let them behold your face,
love them with your elect.”
I pray for Anthony Hecht.
Lord, hear my prayer.
My prayer list for the ill
changes as old friends die,
as my coevals fill
their swelling ranks, and I
whom you have spared so long,
old as I am, stay strong.
Lord, hear my prayer.
Lastly I pray for me,
a sinner so long lost,
so blind, I couldn’t see
the tongues of Pentecost
descending all ablaze
to teach me thanks and praise.
Lord, hear my prayer.
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
