Issue 1

Spring 2012

5 articles · 90 min total reading time
Natural Resources

Green Is Not Red, But Blue: Environmentalism And The Mystery Of Right Wing Opposition

Conservatives are rightly suspicious of environmentalists. By 1992, with Reagan, Thatcher and the end of the Cold War, socialism and left wing thinking appeared to be dead. Conserv…

6 min read 2 charts Audio
Global Balance of Power

The North African Threat And Mediterranean Reunification

North Africa does not appear to be a military and political threat to the European Union. Why should it? In the last few years most of its countries have been convulsed by revoluti…

17 min read 7 charts Audio
Jobs & Economy

Keynes And Hayek Are Both Dead, And Wrong

Despite the fact that both John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich August Hayek are dead, their ideas are very much alive today and form the basis of whether governments choose austerity…

14 min read 2 charts Audio
Natural Resources

The immorality of climate change, a reflection on slavery and the Civil War

Today, few people look back upon African slavery in the Americas as a good thing. There are no rousing speeches defending slave owners rights over their property, or demands not ju…

5 min read Audio
Society

What Does It Take To Get Europeans To Have A Revolution?

In an online article about the youth unemployment crisis in Europe and Africa HFN asked a question: “What are all these people going to do?” to which a reader responded:

48 min read 7 charts Audio
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By Tristan Fischer. A lifelong fascination with history, science, and technology led to a simple observation: the deeper you understand how the past unfolded, the more clearly you can see the future. These essays trace historical patterns and technological trajectories to work out what comes next.

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