Order the autumn edition here

Res Publica

literature

An effort for the zero-emission target

Heikki Holmås: The globe is burning. What must be done?

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 -
literature

A «mission» for floating offshore wind?

Mariana Mazzucato, translated by Eivind Lilleskjæret: A new economy – how moon landing inspires to change capitalism

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

A people of speculators

Hannah Gitmark: The Norwegian home. From welfare goods to objects of speculation

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 Kroglund -
COMMENT

On the way into the 2020's

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

Can Islam be modernized?

Sylo Taraku: The struggle for freedom in Islam

REFORM: A thorough presentation and discussion of the work that takes place to reform Islam, in Norway and internationally.
Kjetil Korslund -
literature

Can We Learn Something About An American Salary?

Ingeborg Eliassen, Sven Egil Omdal: Borger Payroll. The idea that changes the game

MODERN TIMES: brings in connection with the summer and the newspaper's editor an excerpt from the book Borgerlønn.
MODERN TIMES -
literature

The new glue of society

Ingeborg Eliassen and Svein Egil Omdal: Borger Payroll. The idea that changes the game

: Would a monthly sum from the state to all the adults of society revive the feeling of community between the citizens?
Andrew Kroglund -
literature

The hunt for the green

Eivind Hoff-Elimari: Gold or green forests. Politics for the good life.

: In a Norway where waste volumes are growing, topsoil is being reduced and greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, Eivind Hoff-Elimari will wake up his fellow citizens.
Andrew Kroglund -

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly (March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1) with international book reviews, essays and comments – in addition to the physical newspaper and PDF, the articles are eventually published online here (see also the monthly newsletter).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS
Dronningensgt. 16, 0152 Oslo
Chief editor: Truls Lie

Monthly newsletter (newsletter)