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Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay
Sep 21 2024
12 mins
At 75, I have achieved 'old age'. I welcome it and am glad about it and, with some reservations, intend to keep on growing older
Sep 21 2024
10 mins
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 Age of Revolution
Bliss to be alive: to drink deep
Of the headiest of those mixed and long fermented wines:
Voltaire, Rousseau, Blake, Tom Paine’s Rights of Man,
The whole drum-roll: Danton, Marat, Mirabeau,
The Bastille falls, soon all the thrones
Of Europe tremble. Ideas explode like bombs.
In a thousand salons across the Continent
Ideas wheel in armies. Germany is in ferment,
Even Spain stirs. In England an order
Seven hundred years old looks to itself.
Whispers reach Poland and Russia.
And in Glasgow Adam Smith
Secures James Watt a post and changes the world.
Hal Colebatch
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
