Volume LII Number 5

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Quadrant

May 2008 - Volume LII Number 5

Art

Sigmund Freud's Antique Gods

Patricia Anderson

The Brave New Conformity

Peter Saunders

First Person

Things Diana Mosley Told Me

Philip Ayres

Alexander, Baches, Baras ...

Sev Sternhell

Story

Sunset Stroll with Retriever

Anamaria Beligan

Ron Rash

Foreign Affairs

America as the New Rome

Mervin F. Bendle

Argument

Manning Clark's Anti-Semitism

Hal G.P. Colebatch

A Cribber and a Fibber

Keith Windschuttle

Theatre

Tartuffe at the Malthouse

Michael Connor

Devine

The Bad Guy Gets Booed. Understood?

Frank Devine

How Good was Howard?

Securing Australia's "Special Intersection"

Michael Evans

Poetry

Barbara Fisher

Paul Lake

Shane McCauley

Shane McCauley

Dictionary Certified

Shane McCauley

Stilla Natt, Heliga Natt!

Geoff Page

Geoff Page

Geoff Page

Jillian Pattinson

The University among the Redwoods, Santa Cruz

Pascale Petit

Uprooted Redwood

Pascale Petit

Late October Hexameters

Miklos Radnoti, translated by John Ridland and Paul V. Czipott

William Rush

Elizabeth Smither

All Saints and the Day of an Operation

Elizabeth Smither

The Chipped Limoges Plate

Elizabeth Smither

The TUMP in Love

John Whitworth

Gorgeous George

John Whitworth

John Whitworth

The Tropical Paradise of Margaret Mead

John Whitworth

Religion

Should the Church Apologise to Atheists?

Tom Frame

Books

The Measure of God, by Larry Witham

Michael Giffin

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, by Jonathan Rose

Robert Murray

Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration, by Raymond John Howgego

Milton Osborne

Will China Fail? The Limits and Contradictions of Market Socialism, by John Lee

Ted Rule

Literature

Thought Crimes and Other Themes in Commonwealth Literature

Nicholas Hasluck

History

"Unswerving Loyalty"

David W. Lovell

Cannibalism: A White Colonist Fiction?

Geoffrey Partington

Film

Searching the Past

Neil McDonald

Ryan

Two Naked Emperors

Peter Ryan

Economics

Inflamation: Who's to Blame?

John Stone

Society

Fascism and the Left

Michael Warby