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A rational optimism?

THE STORY: What, for example, could the end of slavery mean for our dependence on fossil fuels? What can historical examples of successful coexistence between different ethnic groups, or the rise of the art of printing, tell us today?
Henning Næs -

The need for a relational renaissance

LOVING ANARCHISM: Here we have ten chapters on topics such as water shortages, democracy, environmental challenges, artificial intelligence and economics. A writer who is more concerned with social than technological innovations. For example, he believes that citizens' councils with real power, debate and direct decisions can be established without representative democracy being abolished.
Hanne Ramsdal -

The human planet

ESSAY: What actually lies in the term 'anthropocene' as the term for the era we now find ourselves in? The Anthropocene refers to the many ways in which we humans have transformed the world and recreated it in our image. But there has been a discussion between biologists, anthropologists, geologists and other disciplines about what the term actually entails.
Hanne Ramsdal -

How is peace created?

PEACE WORK: War is contempt for life came at a time when peace thinking and oppositional thoughts are in worse shape than they have been for a long time.
John Y. Jones -

The war

FRED: Linn Stalsberg identifies in his new book that accepting war as a human normal state is one of the great danger signals today. We have become accustomed to the idea that war is a necessity, and that war can be morally required on top of that. At the same time, religion is often used cynically as a tool to promote a warlike development – ​​this extends from Pope Urban to Putin and Netanyahu to Hamas.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Ethics in the time of the climate crisis

ECOLOGY: Despite this book's general critique of anthropocentrism, one could go even further in practicing an ecocentric ethic.
Tina Kryhlmann -

In the hands of the state?

CAPTURE: Who has the right to move "freely" on the digital highways, and who is waved to the side by the police or the state intelligence service because their data profile appears on the radar?
Dominique Routhier -

Corner posts, clues or bearing points

PHOTO ART: Can art function as a correction to discrimination, self-denial and self-contempt? And can an "instruction manual" be a beautiful event in Norwegian non-fiction?
Marianne Solberg -

To care about future generations

PHILOSOPHY: Having your head full of thoughts is not the same as thinking. To think means to concentrate the power of thought in special directions – as the long-term consequences of one's own actions…
Arne Øgaard -

An effort for the zero-emission target

CLIMATE: Heikki Holmås describes zero emission targets in a new book, where the climate crisis is solved with taxes and emission requirements, plenty of green power and technology. But at what price?
Iril Kolle -

A «mission» for floating offshore wind?

GREEN CHANGE: Norway has an inability to get out of oil dependence.
Paal Frisvold -

A people of speculators

HOUSING POLICY: Debate book launches controversial proposals on tax policy, inheritance tax, construction in allotment gardens and in the field boundary to even out economic and social differences.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

On the way into the 2020's

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL: The conversation with Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Truls Lie -

Can Islam be modernized?

REFORM: A thorough presentation and discussion of the work that is being done to reform Islam, in Norway and internationally.
Kjetil Korslund -

Can We Learn Something About An American Salary?

MODERN TIMES brings in connection with the summer and the newspaper's head an extract of the book Borgerlønn.
MODERN TIMES -

The new glue of society

Would a monthly sum from the state to all the community's adults rekindle the sense of community between citizens?
Andrew P. Kroglund -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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