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Knowing Your Left From Right

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Knowing Your Left From Right
(L-R) Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Martin Ollman/Getty Images, Graham Denholm/Getty Images
David Daintree
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It’s astonishing how the old left-right political polarity influences not only our lives as political animals (to play with Aristotle’s famous definition) but also our thinking about social and moral questions.

David Daintree
David Daintree
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David Daintree is director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania, Australia. He has a background in classics and teaches Late and Medieval Latin. Mr. Daintree was a visiting professor at the universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba. He served as president of Campion College from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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