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A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.
The concept of Catholic Culture Wars is destructive, because it makes truth the slave of power. Its logic can be seen in a recent Quadrant review, which projects onto an art exhibition a preoccupation with the occult and sexually ambiguous.
In the First World, wealthy people tend to be slim, while many of the poor are obese. This is in stark contrast to poorer countries, where body fat can be seen as a sign of prosperity and good health, and is often considered attractive.
Jim Davidson’s verdict on Don Watson’s Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language.
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti
Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.
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Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.
The Sant’Egidio community challenges ideologues on all sides of politics
When I was a schoolboy, I read all I could find by G.K. Chesterton.
The unfolding affair of the floating sheep would move most people, even someone named Truss, to poetry, because it is full of echoes, paradoxes and drama.
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