Arena Magazine issue no. 155, 2018
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial | ||
| Alison Caddick | 2 | |
| Lead Graphic | ||
| Barry Dickins | 4 | |
| Commentary | ||
THE END OF NEOLIBERALISM? The cultural-political ground has shifted | Guy Rundle | 5 |
WHEN BANKING EATS ITS CUSTOMERS The Hayne royal commission | Gerard Brody | 7 |
The Enemy Within Trump, NATO and the Russia narrative | Nicolas Hausdorf | 10 |
Vice Media A cultural politics of transgression | Paddy Gordon | 12 |
| Postcard | ||
PAKISTAN TO KASHGAR TO TIBET Experiencing China’s imperialism up close | Mark Furlong | 15 |
| Visual Essay | ||
The Poor Cartoons | Barry Dickins | 28 |
| Features | ||
The Water Paradigm and a new way forward | Ariel Salleh | 18 |
Australian mercenaries and the shifting sands of Australia–Middle East alliances | Richard Tanter | 21 |
On the proper scope and use of the military | Paul Barratt | 25 |
| Arts and Culture | ||
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CIRCUITRY OF THE SPECIES The highly original art of polymath Edwin Tanner | Sarah Bailey | 46 |
| THE UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATION | ||
On the ruins of Western civilisation | Bruce Buchan | 33 |
BEING THERE What you miss out on when face-to-face teaching disappears | Dirk den Hartog | 38 |
A SUPPLEMENT TO AMBROSE BIERCE'S A DEVIL'S DICTIONARY | Robert DiNapoli | 41 |
THE ROCK STAR AT THE UNIVERSITY Disruption—will the academic of the future no longer need to read and write? | Giles Simon Fielke | 42 |
WHAT IS EDUCATION? When ‘education’ is the crisis yet more of it is the answer, aren’t we missing something? | A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens | 45 |
| Reviews | ||
WHEN THE FACTS CHANGE Robert Manne’s On Borrowed Time | Richard King | 54 |
THE TEMPER OF THE TIME Ray Argall’s Midnight Oil: 1984 | Grazyna Zajdow | 55 |
A MAN OF ONLY RELATIVE AUTONOMY Judith Brett’s The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Geoff Robinson | 56 |
LABOR'S GREEN CREDENTIALS Moss Cass and the Greening of the Australian Labor Party, by Cass, Encel and O'Donnell | Geoff Robinson | 57 |
| Poetry | ||
MANILA | Sian Vate | 17 |
I'M IN THE LABOR PARTY | 20 | |
'DIM LANDS OF PEACE' | David Mason | 53 |
CHANT OF THE EUMENIDES | ||
| Cartoons | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| Cryptic Crossword | ||
| Chris Black | ||