Review: Arena Magazine Is Embracing Capitalism and the Future
“The new needs friends,” says food critic Anton Ego in the Disney movie Ratatouille. Arena magazine doesn’t just echo that sentiment—it emblazons it on the cover of its inaugural issue. “Misunderstandings and misinterpretations of new things are used to make the public fear innovation, and to hate innovators,” writes editor and publisher Maxwell Meyer in a “manifesto for the future” at the start ofthe Texas-based publication’s first issue, released in summer 2024. “Our mainstream media is hell-bent on tearing down the future before we can get too good a glimpse.”
For someone eternally frustrated by the doomerism, tech panic, and casual anti-market sentiment permeating both mainstream and avant-garde media, reading Arena was refreshing. The magazine delivers a hefty dose of optimism and excitement not in spite of the current state of capitalism and innovation but because of it—an unapologetic insistence that the present is worth celebrating, the fut
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