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

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

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

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

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

The combination of high technology and the market has produced new kind of economy and culture, writes John Hinkson