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Death by silence

Shelley Gare

Aug 15 2010

1 mins

Listen to Shelley Gare in conversation with Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle:


… we have Quadrant, thank goodness …

What has surprised me is that by being a bit of a questioner I’ve had much more acceptance from the right than from the left.

Quadrant, for instance, gave me a very nice review for the Triumph of the Airheads and I don’t think that the book was ever reviewed in some of the more left wing journals and yet it questioned left and right equally.

So for me, as someone who grew up as a left winger, and now think of myself as a person who has opinions, this has all been very surprising. 

 

Read Shelley Gare’s Quadrant essay “Death by Silence in the Writers’ Combat Zone” here… 

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