Volume XI Number 11

Quadrant magazine is the leading general intellectual journal of ideas, literature, poetry and historical and political debate published in Australia.

You can subscribe to the print edition of Quadrant or Quadrant Online, or both versions. See our subscription page for more information.

Quadrant

November 2009 - Volume XI Number 11

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Michael O'Connor, Dawn Moss, James Allan, Murray Mitchell

Culture

The Meaning of Civilisation

D.M. Armstrong

The Flawed Rationalism of Christopher Hitchens

Gary Clark

From Red China to Reagan's America

Ben-Peter Terpstra

Politics

The Most Accurate Prediction in History

Bernard Levin

The Future of the Pax Americana

Daryl McCann

Tribute

Irving Kristol - the Australian Connection

Owen Harries

Defence

Women in Combat - Again!

Michael O'Connor

Society

Eurislam - A Model for Australia?

Geoffrey Luck

History

Kevin Does History

Gregory Melleuish

The secret plan to invade sydney

Michael Connor

The Tanah Merah Exiles in Australia

Ross Fitzgerald & Graham Irvine

The Annus Mirabilis of a Subdued Radical

David Bird

Religion

From Muhammad to Anthony Mundine

Barry Peters

Education

The Struggle for the Schools

Kevin Donnelly

Mark Lopez

Requiem for Defunct Magazines

Alan Barcan

First Person

Tom Burton

Art

Some Problems in the Art World

Patrick Morgan

Confronting the Confrontationalists

Chad Swanson

Literature

The Frederic Manning Revival

Laurie Hergenhan

Music

The Journey of Beethoven's Hair

Agnes Selby

Language

Where Does Language Come From?

Michael Giffin

Film

Scaramouche and the Swashbuckler

Neil McDonald

Stories

The Senate Vacancy

Patricia Shaw

The Red Packets

Ouyang Yu

Books

Refusing to Be Victims

J. J. Spigelman

What Happened at Bardia?

John Donovan

Standard Habbie

Jamie Grant

Dividing the Unknown

Hal G. P. Colebatch

Ryan

The Immortal Samuel Johnson

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Suzanne Edgar

The 41st Year of 1968

Les Murray

Table of Contents

Jennifer Compton

Melinda Smith

The Year I Nearly Went to India

Bruce Dawe

Andrew Lansdown

In Praise of Etymology

Suzanne Edgar

Robyn Lance

Shane McCauley

Unsolved Mystery in an Upper Middle-Class Suburb

Bruce Dawe

Anna Buck

My Grandpa ... And Yours

Alison McNaught

Cracking the Shits

Edith Speers

Alison McNaught

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

I’ve Ridden Slipshod Over My Life

John West

Delivery Driver

Alison McNaught

Five Short Poems

Jennifer Compton

Melinda Smith