Fifty years of quadrant.(Editorial)

THIS MONTH we celebrate the fiftieth year of publication of Quadrant, whose first editor was the distinguished poet and intellectual James McAuley. Its joint founder was Richard Krygier, whose experience of Central Europe under communism had convinced him of the nature of that system, and with a small number of influential supporters he first founded the Association of Cultural Freedom, an offshoot of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which saw as its mission the conduct of intellectual resistance to communism. He had before him the example of the English journal Encounter, at its peak one of the most interesting of the intellectual journals of that country, and a number ...