Then… and now
I’m not sure if Quadrant is now under the editorship of Keith Windschuttle (whose 60s adventures are in the news today) or whether P.P. McGuiness is still in the chair. But their leader writer doesn’t appear to be such a [...]
The postmodern election
From today’s Crikey email. Cross-posted at LP in exile where you can comment on the story while we wait for LP’s server woes to be sorted: There’s a now infamous quote from a senior Bush administration official which goes like [...]
Rats, sinking ship, etc.
Christopher Pearson joins his colleague Greg Sheridan in dissing the (formerly) Dear Leader for losing the culture wars. If only Howard had been more courageous the evil “latte-sippers” would really have been swept from their redoubts in the ABC, public [...]
Culture wars target opera!
Quadrant must be the only “little mag” that gets to run its job ads for free via laudatory columns in the press – witness Frank Devine in The Australian a while back: THE worst paid – next to nothing as [...]
Petard Watch
Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, authors of The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press, recently produced a two parter on the postmodern left at On Line Opinion. Part one begins: Pomo-bashing, like dragon-hunting, is an activity best [...]
Post-Modernist Relativism, Windschuttle Style
The latest edition of Quadrant (available at all good newsagents, according to the Quadrant web-site) includes this transcript of a lecture by Keith Windschuttle (hat-tip to The Dead Roo for the link). Its title: âThe Struggle for Australian Values in [...]
Book shopping should be an Olympic sport! [Now with photoblogging]
Excitement! For Brisvegas based LP readers, the twice yearly Lifeline Bookfest is on again, and it’s open til 8pm tonight and tomorrow and continues on til Wednesday. Over at the Convention centre – details at Our Brisbane. All proceeds go [...]
Confusing Marx and Stalin
In today’s Australian, the Labor speech writer and author of Orwell’s Australia, Dennis Glover has played right into the hands of the very cultural warriors he so eloquently rips apart in that great little book. In a column titled “Marxism [...]
At the Brisbane Writers Festival
I often have nightmares about turning up for work when no-one else is there, or being invited to a party and being the only person showing up, or not being able to find the place I’m going to and so [...]
Windschuttle Fisked
[Via Jo Jacobs]. Keith Windschuttle has published a long article on The Journalism of War in The New Criterion. Much of his argument is taken up with attacking the objectivity of Robert Fisk and John Pilger. I don’t want to [...]
The New McCarthyism
The McCarthyist era, with its loyalty oaths and purges of leftist Professors, saw the most concerted attack on academic freedom in the history of the United States. Much has been made of recent pushes to disable any criticism of the [...]
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