Subscription 790/year or 198/quarter

pandemic

Our Destiny: Climate Policy When It's Too Late

CLIMATE CHANGE: The long coming heat could mean that our children and grandchildren will have to live underground to survive. What do we do about the crisis that has definitely become a consequence of limited or no action?
John Kendall Hawkins -

A potpourri. A delicious little dandelion seed

ŽIŽEK: Mad World is basically 'Pandemic-3: The Aftermath'. Slavoj Žižek wrote many chronicles, commentaries and film reviews during the covid-19 pandemic. This is his third collection of texts.
John Kendall Hawkins -

"The Age of Transformation"

POWER: Is it possible to explain why the resurgence of free market ideas has resulted in persistent unemployment, rising inequality and financial crises? According to Philip Ther, the corona pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have led to the end of an era – the world as imagined after 1989.
Sjur Papazian -

The comprehensive self-insulation

COVID19: SARS in 2003, bird flu in 2005, MERS in 2012, Ebola in 2014, combined with the financial crisis, massive refugee flows, and revolutions in the Middle East and Greta Thunberg's shrill doomsday voice, had largely immunized the population against something as abstract as Covid19.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

What is the direction of the UN with the world's richest multinational companies as partners?

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: The book Covid-19: The Great Reset is about a transformation of a social structure where the nation state is out, and global governance is in.
Ingrid Braastad -

What ethical principles are behind the first vaccine sticks?

ETHICS: Behind the authorities' vaccination strategy is an ethical chaos.
Steingrimur Njalsson -

The more positive aspects of Corona

CORONA: Nothing is in a hurry anymore. Illness, death, and economic ruin are the hallmarks of the pandemic, but in corona-the time also arises cognition and insight, which we should take with us further.
Steffen Moestrup -

Where are we going now?

Is globalization an evil that should now be fought? No, it's more nuanced. We who have an international orientation look with fear at how international cooperation is now being weakened by the pandemic.
Truls Lie -

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).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS. PO Box 3113 Elisenberg, 0207 Oslo. Chief editor: Truls Lie

Newsletter