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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
Nice Republicans Finish Last
Donald Trump said that there might be riots if he was denied the Republican nomination. In saying this he was, of course, assuming the most probable outcome: that he will get to the convention in July well ahead of Ted Cruz and John Kasich but without a clear majority of delegate votes. And then the wheeling and dealing will deny him the nomination.
Two things then went on. First the media, the Democrats and his Republican rivals criticised him for inflammatory language. He may have meant the reference to ‘riots’ figuratively. Who knows? He was never going to get that benefit of the doubt and the days are in the past when Bob Askin, then Premier of NSW, could say jocularly to Lyndon Johnson that he ought to have told his driver to run over demonstrators (who had thrown themselves in front of his car) and to which Johnston reportedly responded ‘a man after my own heart’
The second thing to happen is that some anybody-but-Trump conservative commentators went back to 1860, when…
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
