Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams
Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO, FAHA, FRSAis an Australian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer. He hosts an ABC Radio National program, Late Night Live, four nights a week, and writes a weekly column for The Australian...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth12 July 1939
CountryAustralia
book addiction library
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
mass-destruction people september-11
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent
home effort tree
Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.
years grandpa tree
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.
men together advertising
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
party hatred political
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
civilization people atheism
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.
mind internet states
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
night earth radio
It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.
people risk extraordinary-things
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people