He has a background as newspaper and magazine editor – for 30 years. He is the editor of our ‘cinepolitical’ documentary magazine Modern Times Review (since 2017).
From 2015-2027 he has been editor/publisher of NY TID (modern times), a Norwegian quarterly non-fiction printed book magazine.
HISTORY: Previous publisher and editor-in-chief of Morgenbladet in Oslo (1993–2003) and Le Monde diplomatique (2003-2013). He was also previously editor of the magazine DOX at EDN for 4 years. Here an old selection will be available in some time (Norwegian/English)…
Latest articles in Modern Times Review:
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Artificial intelligence
Totalitarian? At the Partner Forum in Oslo, we got to learn that Orwell was wrong.
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A female role model
RESTORATION: A new year, new opportunities. 17 years ago, Charlotte Horton left the UK for Italy, where she’s devoted her time to restoring Potentino castle. We meet to discuss the ecological attitude to life, local traditions, democracy and micro-politics.
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The Way One American Sees It
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: After two decades of incendiary filmmaking, American moviemaker Travis Wilkerson has something to tell us about war, racism and activism. And about the use of a radical form of expression.
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The danger of globalisation
Was Jesus only an illegitimate child who made up stories about his dad being up in heaven, asks philosopher Peter Sloterdijk in his latest book After God (Nach Gott)
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Secrets
ARR: “Secrets” is the theme of the latest issue of ARR, a Norwegian publication dedicated to the academic field of the history of ideas.
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Idealism killed the Burmese
MYANMAR AND DEMOCRACY: Modern Times Review have met the lawyer who most likely became just too dangerous for the old Myanmar military: He was recently killed because he fought for the new democracy alongside Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Thor Halvorssen: authoritarian states
OSLO: Thor Halvorssen has long been deemed a suspicious liberalist. We interviewed him about dictatorships, his native Venezuela, anarchism and meritocracy – so that you can judge for yourself.
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INTERVIEW: A Day in Aleppo
How desperate it must seem, trying – like film directors frequently do – to spur the world into action to end the war in Syria. We have caught up with one of the people who are fighting this battle.
Some favourite essays:
The Specific Intellectual
In memory of Marker
POV: The War of the spirit
THOUGHT MADE VISIBLE: The movie auteurs
