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The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Will Fraser: ‘Rear Vision’ and ‘Voice’
Rear Vision
Navigating
the highways
roundabouts and
cul-de-sacs of
memory
in order to
retrace the route back to
you
to
us
and
that season of sunbeams and rainbows when
we
in our blissful rapture
imagined that
our affair of the heart
would,
like the open road,
go on forever
Will Fraser
Voice
And
at length
he
had lost
her
just by being himself
when she had responded by
taking up with someone new
to become
first person
us
the personal circumstances
in retrospect
striking him
a traditionalist as
highly irregular, albeit
grammatically correct.
Will Fraser
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
