Volume LVI Number 9

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Quadrant

September 2012 - Volume LVI Number 9

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

September 2012

Politics

The End of the Age of Reform

Peter Murphy

How Obama is Fashioning Post-America

Daryl McCann

Johnson in the White House

Stephen Wilks

The Madness of Crowds with Too Much Money

Ted Rule

On the End of History

Mervyn F. Bendle

Science

Cosmic Implications of the Higgs Bosun

John O'Connor

Defence

Submarines and All That

Michael O'Connor

Philosophy and Ideas

The Lethal Philosophy of Peter Singer

James Franklin

From Dystopia to Utopia: Nazi euthanasia/eugenics and their re-emergence

Brian Wimborne

Killing with Kindness

John Derbyshire

Society

Gay Marriage and the Growth of State Intervention

Gerard Calilhanna

History

Stonehenge: Druids, Scientists and the Heritage Moneybox

Geoffrey Luck

Poetry

Les Murray

David Chandler

Nana Ollerenshaw

Stephanie's War

John Upton

Philippa Martyr

Odes to the Street-walkers of Dili

Jemal Sharah

For Two Now Captive of That Moment

Russell Erwin

Jemal Sharah

Under the Gaze of KL's High Rise Eyes

Robyn Lance

The Waiter and the Tourist in Turkey

Robyn Lance

Hal G.P. Colebatch

The Executioner's Tale

B N Oakman

Zurbaran’s folds

Jacqui Wise

Literature

Les Murray, Anthologist

Alan Gould

Charles Bukowski and the Habit of Art

Gary Furnell

Cultural Erasure

Patrick McCauley

Theatre

Michael Connor

Film

Neil McDonald

First Person

In Pursuit of Cannibals

Robin Barclay

Cookery

The Vanishing Australian Tablespoon

Michael Giffen

Story

Kerry Conway

Book Review

Our Wits, Not Our Pits

Peter Coleman

Dogmatic Science

Sev Sternhell

The Female Muse

R.J. Stove

Ryan

The Almost Broken Country

Peter Ryan

Letters

Letters to the Editor

George Brandis, Stanley Croker, Anthony Sharpe, Tony Caldersmith, Tony Winkelman, Samuel Beaux, Peter Gerard, Garth Fraser, John Weir, Geoffrey Luck