MOONSCAPE Like a name-dropping traveller through the galaxy’s night, The moon dispenses a greater luminary’s reflected light; Locked into an orbit of its colourful overlord, Linked to its master on an invisible umbilical cord. Twenty-nineteen brought a lunar celebration; A golden anniversary for the U.S. nation. Fifty years since those heady sci-fi aims came true;…
THE SMALLEST MINORITY: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics by Kevin D. Williamson Gateway Editions, Washington DC Hardcover: 256 pages Price: AUD$53.99 Reviewed by David James Kevin D. Williamson’s book, The Smallest Minority, is an entirely reasonable critique of democracy’s shortcomings that just as entirely misses the point. He criticises the mob rule…
WHY READ HANNAH ARENDT NOW? by Richard J. Bernstein Polity Publisher, Cambridge Paperback: 120 pages Price: AUD$21.95 LOVE AND SAINT AUGUSTINE by Hannah Arendt University of Chicago Press, Chicago Paperback: 254 pages Price: AUD$32.99 Reviewed by Paul Gray Hannah Arendt is one of the most important thinkers of the late 20th century and, in…
by Symeon J. Thompson It was a time of wonder, of adventure and heroism, of quests and great feats. It was a time long ago, a time that never really existed – or did it? Is it perhaps a time that exists in a special way, a way that can be accessed in the here…
