Arena Journal articles from March 2005

Arena Journal archives from March 2005

The Fourth Geneva Convention: its relevance for settler nations.(Essay)
March 22, 2005... In recent years academics have engaged in animated debate over the possibility of a genocidal phenomenon in Australian history. (1) Several authors have referred to the United Nations convention on genocide in order to establish whether...

Christopher Hitchens: flickering firebrand.(Essay)
March 22, 2005... His former illusion at least implied a positive ideal. His disillusionment is utterly negative. His role is therefore intellectually and politically barren... He advances bravely in the front rank of every witch-hunt. His blind...

After the London bombings: global terror, the west and indiscriminate violence.(Essay)
March 22, 2005... In the midst of carnage and outrage in many parts of the world, and with daily body counts in Iraq often in excess of the loss of life in the London bombings, the endless soul-searching accounts into that particular terrorist attack often...

Greenhouse: a scientific, political and moral issue.(Essay)
March 22, 2005... The atmospheric science community has long been convinced that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the global climate and demand attention. Under the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated under the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change,...

Something uncanny at the heart of psychoanalysis.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... In this country she was afraid. But it was her soul more than her body that knew fear. She had thought that each individual had a complete self, a complete soul, an accomplished I. And now she realized... that this was not...