Quadrant Magazine

The Postcolonials' Literary Revenge The great irony is that, with few exceptions, the most lauded postcolonial novels have all been written in English for Western consumption ✍️ Jane Sutton Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-…

The Enduring Relevance of Ayn Rand Her books plant a question that does not easily go away: Who owns your life? That is precisely what the modern Left would prefer not to be asked ✍️ Logan Lamont Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

The Tenacity of a Labor Outlier In the end, Graeme Campbell and Labor parted ways. The maverick MP from Kalgoolie was Right and Labor had gone very Left ✍️ Gary Johns Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/polit…

Let No Innocent Man Go Unpunished Craig McLachlan has discovered that in today’s Australia a 'not guilty' verdict means very little in our feminist-led court of public opinion ✍️ Bettina Arndt Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

The Crocodile Man’s Comeuppance Tiwi Islanders initially raised no objection to Santos tapping the Barossa gasfield. Then the green lawyers rolled in with their academics-for-hire and mounted a gigantic and cynical fraud ✍️ Peter Purcell Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

Averse to the Value of Verse With young people seduced by an empty, sterile and addictive digital world it’s time to reassert the importance of poetry ✍️ Kevin Donnelly Article|quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

All Tuckered Out with Carlson Fame and freedom from editorial restraint can do strange things to a man, but who ever expected to see the former and once seemingly sane TV host siding with Iran against Israel and America? ✍️ Nicole James Article| quadrant.org.au/other/media/al…

His Day in the Correct Court A popular opinion amongst those who have never worn Australia's uniform holds that Roberts-Smith should face a military court. Permit me scotch that furphy here and now ✍️ Peter O'Brien Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

The Inane Expansion of Creative Writing Courses Novelist Michael Wilding once observed, 'I don’t believe you can teach creative writing.' Yet such wrongheaded courses proliferate, much to the detriment of their befuddled students ✍️ Barry Spurr Article|quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-…

A Likud Lesson for the Australian Right The assumption that fragmentation on the right is fatal is refuted by Netanyahu's success at forming and re-forming coalitions. Liberals and One Nation would do well to mull his methods ✍️ Licia Driscoll Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

The Good Oil on Oil Now, suddenly, it’s clear to all but the most green-minded ideologues that Australia's health, wealth and future hang not on renewables but on good, old fashioned hydrocarbons ✍️ Peter Purcell Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

A Simple Matter of Accountability The Ben Roberts-Smith affair is much more than a culture wars skirmish. It is a quest for truth that must be pursued to its full and possibly bitter conclusion ✍️ Peter O'Brien Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

Mamoo "Isla and Lottie chorus, 'Goodnight, Mum,' and whisper to each other behind their kitten-paw hands. The blood-warmth of it pings in my deep neural networks" ✍️ Craig White Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/story…

Renewables’ Giffen Take Permit me to introduce those who believe green power is the cheapest energy to an insight laid out over a century ago by a very savvy Scottish statistician ✍️ Peter Smith Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

Moral Posturing at a Safe Distance No military can function when soldiers fear their actions in combat will later be judged by desk-jockey arbiters far, far away ✍️ Michael J. Galak Article|quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

What Really Happened at Shah Wali Kot Ben Roberts-Smith is behind bars, an accused war criminal. The firefight and its background detailed in Aaron Patrick's magisterial The Last Battle is essential reading ✍️ Anne Henderson Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/milit…

Islam and Sexual Slavery Islamist terrorism is not a consequence of the West's failure to accommodate 'cultural differences'. ✍️ Victoria Kincaid Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-…

Still the Elusive Warriors If Tongerlongeter had used the diplomatic skills the authors say he possessed, the deaths and agony in the years to come might not have occurred ✍️ John Heathcote Article| quadrant.org.au/magazine/books…

The Victorian Liberals’ Death Wish A party failing to recognise Moira Deeming as its best and last hope of electoral salvation doesn't deserve to survive, let alone govern ✍️ Augusto Zimmermann & Gabriël Moens Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…

Attack of the Opinion-Page Generals Previous presidents cared deeply about keeping the press onside. Trump doesn't give a hoot -- and that, as the mullahs have come to realise, is his strength ✍️ Peter O'Brien Article| quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/…