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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 -

The hunt for the green

In a Norway where waste volumes are growing, food soil is being reduced and greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, Eivind Hoff-Elimari will awaken its citizens.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix 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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