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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Stanley J. Solomon: ‘Ben Jonson Discovers the Sonnets’
Ben Jonson Discovers the Sonnets
You say this sonnet was made by Will.
I didn’t know he had the skill
to write in somber lines that rhyme
and stop at fourteen, who’d waste much time
(as playwrights do) compounding words
like heaps of leaves or chirps of birds—
excess of meaning, too many kings,
their battles and betrayals, things
expanding joys and hates and sorrow
not once—tomorrow and tomorrow
and tomorrow—no self-discipline
Where speeches end or where begin
Yet somehow here he’s learned the way—
Succinct, but bearing much to say:
he’s let the couplet hold full sway.
Stanley J. Solomon
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
