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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Romantic Luddites
The Romantic Attack on Modern Science in England and America and Other Essays
by Roger Sworder
Angelico Press, 2015, 172 pages, $33
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I read Roger Sworder’s previous book, Mining, Metallurgy and the Meaning of Life, with enjoyment, profit and fascination. It remains on my bookshelf and I quote from it quite often.
When I saw he had published another book, The Romantic Attack on Modern Science in England and America, I sent off my $33 for it at once. To call it a disappointment is an understatement. Not that the subject matter is dull or unimportant. It is very important indeed. The disappointment springs from the fact that in the fight for civilisation the book is loudly on what I believe is the wrong side.
Perhaps as I write this I am not in the best position to be entirely objective. My wife delivered my copy of the book to me in hospital, where I was being treated in an intensive care unit and was being kept alive by machines that manifested…
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
