Arena Magazine issue no. 138, 2015
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| Simon Cooper | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Thao Le | 4 | |
| AGAINST THE CURRENT | ||
UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME A welfare system for a warming twenty-first century? | Greg Marston | 5 |
THE ROAD TO PARIS On the lead-up to the Paris climate talks | Philippa Rowland | 8 |
YOU TOOK THEM ALIVE, WE WANT THEM BACK ALIVE! The forced disappearance of forty-three Mexican students | Marisol Reyes Soto | 10 |
$100,000 DEGREES AHEAD University deregulation still Turnbull's agenda | Jeannie Rea | 13 |
| FEATURES | ||
SYRIAN FANTASIES A short history of incomprehensible wars | Gerry Simpson | 17 |
WAR ON THE NIQAB 'Our' sexism versus 'their' sexism? | Gavin Lewis | 20 |
What Australia can learn from the Mapuche in Chile | Sophie Gulliver | 23 |
VACCINE HESITANCY Holistic and conventional medicine must collaborate to find a solution | Andy Blunden | 28 |
HUMAN CARGO How instrumental rationality dictates the treatment of asylum seekers | Joshua Lourensz | 32 |
| ESSAY | ||
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS Powerful edifices built on hope | Kirsty Sangster | 36 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
LOVING THE UNLOVABLE Simone Weil today | Justin Clemens | 43 |
| REGULARS | ||
THE COMMON TOUCH: OVERACTING | Mark Furlong | 15 |
POSTCARD: A WARY EMBRACE From China to Japan by ship | Roland Boer | 48 |
| REVIEWS | ||
EXTINCTIONS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE 'The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History', by Elizabeth Kolbert | John Hinkson | 51 |
LET'S BE MORE LIKE GHOSTS On 'Interstellar' and the generations | Alana Lopez | 53 |
| POETRY | ||
WE LAUGHED | Edith Speers | 7 |
ODE FOR AN ANNIVERSARY | Judith Brooks | 41 |
1914-2014 | Judith Brooks | 41 |
THE LASY DAY | 41 | |
WILFRED OWEN | 41 | |
4 NOVEMBER 1918 | 41 | |
ARIBURNU SAVASI, TURKEY, | 42 | |
25 APRIL 1915 | 42 | |
| CARTOONS | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| IILUSTRATION | ||
| Thao Le | ||