July-August 2011

Volume LV Number 7-8

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

July-August 2011 - Volume LV Number 7-8

Letters

Lettters to the Editor

Suzanne Edgar, H.A. Willis, Donat Gallagher, Geoffrey Lehmann, Richard Clifford, Ray Evans, Stan Scott, Michael Warby, John Dawson, Robert McLaughlin

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

July-August, 2011

Western Civilisation

The Looming Reality of American Decline

Paul Monk

Culture

The Great Purge of Our Libraries

Michael Wilding

Environment

Fishy Science on the Great Barrier Reef

Walter Starck

Professor Garnaut’s Magical Mystery Tour

Michael Kile

Literature

Poetry and the Life Well Lived

Barry Spurr

Beauty and the Art of Poetry

Jack Sexton

Politics

The Degradation of the Public Service

John Stone

The Labor Sideshow

Daryl McCann

Naive Optimists and the Grim Reality

Paul Williams

Criticism

Manning Clark and the Nazis

David Bird

Inside the Afghan War

Mishka Gora

Every Arrow in the Quiver

Tim Murphy

Media

Out of Love with the Economist

James Allan

Religion

God versus Allah

Mark Durie

Economics

The Debate That Never Dies

Peter Smith

Defending the Faith

Phillip Hilton

A Spectator’s Guide to the Economy

Steven Kates

Theatre

Hello Ego, Goodbye Chekhov

Michael Connor

Australia

Immigration, the Nation and Multiculturalism

Harry Gelber

Science

The Greening of the Arid Boundary

David F. Smith

First Person

People-Smuggler and Saviour

Sev Sternhell

Alan Gould

Film

Flare Path to the Stars

Neil McDonald

Stories

Cutting-Out Expedition

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Libby Sommer

Ryan

Somehow, We Vote for Them

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Rousseau and the Tiger

John Whitworth

Margaret Harvey

Holding a Book in Your Hand

Margaret Harvey

Old Cheese and Pears

Paula Jones

Sebastian Schloessingk

Wet-blanket month

Margaret Harvey

Forget his eyes

Margaret Harvey

Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

Joe Dolce

The Green-Eyed Boy of the Rain

Joe Dolce

My Soul to Keep

Joe Dolce

Teenage Vampire

John Whitworth

John Whitworth

This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Two Giuseppes

Joe Dolce

Brian Hawkins

Outback Funeral

Cecilia Morris

In the Manawatu

Jennifer Compton

The Ballroom of Heaven

Paul Lake

Paula Jones

Paula Jones

On the Island of Cuba

Margaret Harvey

Margaret Harvey