"Not to succumb to anger, self-pity or despair when almost any other human would and instead to have accepted this modern day crucifixion, walking humbly in the footsteps of Our Lord, that’s the heroic virtue that makes him, to my mind, a saint for our times."

David Barnett, who died in Canberra last month, was a […]

People speak of the Tall Poppy syndrome in Australian culture […]

“Big Sister” Robin Marsden (1936–2021), who sadly succumbed to faculties-withering […]

For several years in the Seventies, Robin Marsden was Quadrant's only full-time employee, shouldering every month the Herculean labours of one on whom everything depends. 'I have been blessed,' she would later write, 'to have worked as an editor with some of our finest writers.' And they, it must be said, were privileged to have worked with her

I had been meeting Philip Ayres quite regularly for five […]

On December 11, 2020, James R. Flynn passed away. Flynn […]

Growing up as the only child of a bereaved mother was surely the root of his eagerness to please — of the reluctance to be boring that weighed on him like a moral obligation. He wanted to live the life his parents were denied, to speak every language and read every book, to make phrases that were light on their feet but laden with universal truth

It was Paris, May 1968, when Roger Scruton saw into […]