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Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

Unstable Politics

March 2, 2010 – 3:37 pm

John Hinkson examines the sources of today’s unstable politics.

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Arena Magazine Editorial, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, Eric Hobsbawm, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Peter Garrett, populism, Rudd Government, technology, Tony Abbott | Comments (0)

Reflections on the Current Condition

April 2, 2009 – 1:53 pm

The Arena publications respond to the current crisis. By Geoff Sharp, Nonie Sharp, John Hinkson, Paul James, Alison Caddick, Simon Cooper

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine issue 100 April-June 2009, Beyond Left and Right, David McKnight, Dissent, Geoff Sharp, global financial crisis, Kenneth Davidson, Nonie Sharp, Overland, Paul James, Simon Cooper, The Monthly, the third way | Comments (0)

Reading Climate Change

February 2, 2009 – 4:33 pm

John Hinkson finds that three recent books on climate change do not face up to the cultural assumptions that feed global warming.

Posted in features | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 99 February-March 2009, climate change, environment | Comments (0)

The Fiery Breath of Change?

February 2, 2009 – 1:51 pm

Alison Caddick reflects on the Black Saturday bushfires, morality and neo-liberal markets

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Black Saturday bushfires, carbon trading, climate change, Del Weston, Germaine Greer, Greens, h as John Hinkson, John Brumby, Kevin Rudd, land management, Miranda Devine, Nature, neo-liberal market, prescribed burning, Royal Commission, suburbia | Comments (0)

Neo-liberalism has no Future

October 2, 2008 – 1:35 pm

Does the global financial crisis mark a new realisation of the limits of where the capitalist order can take us asks John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alan Greenspan, Arena Magazine issue 97 October-November 2008, Bear Stearns, F. A. Hayek, global financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, neo-liberalism, Peter Warburton, postmodern economy | Comments (0)

Dead Politics

June 2, 2008 – 1:23 pm

Neo-liberal globalisation is now encountering a world that it believes should not exist: the finite world writes John Hinkson.

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 95 June-July 2008, climate change, environment, Kevin Rudd, OPEC, The Garnaut Report | Comments (0)

Food Riots: System Breakdown

April 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm

John Hinkson on food shortages, population growth, climate change, and why neo-liberalism as an untenable social order

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 2020 Summit, bio-fuels, capitalism, climate change, commodity consumption, ethics, food availability, food prices, food riots, food shortages, global market, global population, global trade, global travel, International Monetary Fund (IMF), neo-liberalism, oil and gas shortages, peak oil, water availability, World Bank | Comments (0)

High Towers, High Stakes, High Risks

October 2, 2001 – 7:59 pm

John Hinkson: The financial fallout of the attack has laid bare the risky and crisis-ridden nature of a hi-tech society. The aftershocks will echo through every sector of the economy.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, adical mobility, bio-technology, consumption, e-commerce, economic crisis, futures, hedge funds, high tech, hijaking, insurance, oil, recession, risk, security, terrorism, tourism, war | Comments (0)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments (0)

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