Flint & Steel is an annual publication that aims to live up to its moniker’s metaphor: we want it to spark thought and creativity. In curating a variety of ideas around a central theme each year, we hope to provide a chance for readers to think deeply about the things that affect all of us.

THE 2019 VOLUME – IN THE BONDS OF LOVE WE MEET

It’s a phrase most of us have sung with varying degrees of passion, but is the affection it describes a reality in New Zealand’s public life? What are the bonds of love? And where are we meeting to negotiate them?

On Common Ground – read a preview article from this year’s magazine

This year’s volume of Flint & Steel magazine looks at how we cultivate better public discussions on the issues that divide and unite society. The contributors to this magazine have considered how this might be done: in neighbourhoods and families, in fraying institutions like media and politics, through different cultural lenses, and in the kinds of communities and education that form us to listen and love.

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