In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
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Wednesday 15 Mar 2017
Can nationalism be redeemed? Or it is just going to be a standoff between liberal cosmopolitanism and atavistic nativism from here on in?
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Wednesday 8 Mar 2017
Is the arrival of a post-truth age synonymous with the liquidation of the bank of public faith?
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Wednesday 1 Mar 2017
Is very idea of ‘weekends’ an illegitimate leftover from a different age?
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Wednesday 22 Feb 2017
If the food we consume is not produced ethically, are we implicated in the immorality of the production process?
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Wednesday 15 Feb 2017
Can a just and peaceable political order endure without the taming presence of the conservative disposition?
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Wednesday 8 Feb 2017
Is tourism just the latest manifestation of the colonial impulse?
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Wednesday 1 Feb 2017
During his first week in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has effectively governed by Executive Order. He is thus confirming his self-styled reputation as – and fulfilling his pledge to be – a strong leader who can ‘get things done’.
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Wednesday 25 Jan 2017
Is the idea of ‘Australia’ – with its national fetishes of food, football and the ‘fair go’ - generous enough and inoffensive enough to include anyone?
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Thursday 19 Jan 2017
In modern democracies, the people are more interested in registering their discontent than giving politicians a clear mandate. Are we now living in an age of negative politics?
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Thursday 12 Jan 2017
From Vietnam to Tunisia and Tibet, self-immolation has been used as a means of political protest. Now it is also occurring at the Nauru detention centre. But will the shock of these events translate to action? Or have we simply accepted the human collateral of Australia’s official policy of deterrence?
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Thursday 5 Jan 2017
The idea that the public 'contest of ideas’ kills off the worst, and allows the best, the most rational, to survive is not working, so is public debate doing more harm than good?
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Thursday 29 Dec 2016
Over the past three decades, Muhammad Ali has been sanitized and rendered acceptable for wider public consumption.
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Thursday 22 Dec 2016
The 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factories in Bangladesh revealed the human cost behind the cheap clothes we buy. But what explains the disparity between ethical convictions and consumer choice?
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Thursday 15 Dec 2016
Is the media having a corrosive effect on our democratic culture?
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