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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
Trevor Bailey: ‘Her Smile’
Her Smile
A smile is always more than flesh for us, even if it is only flesh.
—Sir Roger Scruton
They claim it’s only muscles in the face:
But Sasha smiles with mouth and eyes,
And apple cheeks quite fit for pies,
To lift my heart by several beats in pace;
To elevate the sun at dawn,
To raise from seed a perfect lawn,
To hoist my spirits to a kinder place;
To ease a flower from the bud,
To pluck the beaten from the blood,
To draw my worship of her charm and grace.
To think one smile can do all this
Means you and I must both dismiss
The claim it’s only muscles in the face.
Trevor Bailey
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
