Game over for oil… The economy is next

2 May, 2020

It’s game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry and the repurcussions are global Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt…

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

The coming Greater Depression of the 2020s

1 May, 2020

While there is never a good time for a pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis has arrived at a particularly bad moment for the global economy. The world has long been drifting into a perfect storm of financial, political, socioeconomic, and environmental risks, all…

HEALTH·HISTORY

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

3 April, 2020

In the current health crisis, we might ask what needs to be cured more urgently: the virus itself or people’s poor sense of moderation. We have seen shocking footage of panicked citizens fighting over the last pack of toilet tissue, our politicians’…

AUSTRALIA·Corona Virus

Australia’s post-war recovery program provides a direction as to how to get out of this

2 April, 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the world, wartime metaphors abound. And, with what amounts to a war economy now in place, attention has inevitably turned to post-war reconstruction. It is self-evident that, without any clear idea of when the emergency will…

WORLD

Turkey: Pressures, Attacks, and Discrimination against Christians

1 April, 2020

When Protestants introduce themselves to the authorities as a church, they receive warnings that they are not legal and may be closed down. In 2019, however, many members of the foreign clergy, as well as church members, were deported, refused residence permits,…

AUSTRALIA·Corona Virus

CORONOAVIRUS CLOSURES: Everything that will shut from midnight tonight

25 March, 2020

Australians will face even tighter restrictions on daily life as the country grapples with the an upturn (that will peak sometime inn April or May) in coronavirus cases. An expanded list of businesses will be forced to close their doors at midnight…

HISTORY

Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now

23 March, 2020

The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words like “epidemic” and “pandemic” (and “panic”!) have become part of our daily discourse. These words are Greek in origin, and they point…

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