Donald Trump is a vehicle for Musk and Thiel to implement their radical ideas, which aim to replace an accountable government with an unaccountable techno-monarchy, writes former technology manager Mike Brock. His article was first published in March on https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-silicon-valleys-corrupted-libertarianism.

“In Europe, people are actually being imprisoned for their opinions,” is the title of Yascha Mounk’s essay. Jeanette Hofmann, political researcher at Berlin’s Freie Univer­sität is specialized in digital­ization and democracy. She disagrees and instead empha­sizes the urgency of finding answers to the dilemma democracy finds itself in: Defending itself without compro­mising its principles. 

From Germany to the UK, citizens are now routinely targeted for their online state­ments, writes German-American political scientist Yascha Mounk in his analysis and concludes that freedom of expression in Europe is under threat.

Hong Kong’s free society is being destroyed by China’s National Security Laws. With the election of John Lee as Chief Executive, a nightmare has come true for Hong Kong’s democracy movement....

So far, the people of Ukraine have borne the burden of the war all alone. For the German precept of “never again”, this is a reality shock, comments Marieluise Beck.

More than 80 scholars, politi­cians, business­people and civil society repre­sen­ta­tives have signed an appeal to the German government to stop oil and gas imports from Russia. Remarkably, the coalition of...

Military expert Gustav C. Gressel on the war in Ukraine: The outcome will depend in part on whether the West supplies Ukraine with the weapons it needs. It is also...

Based on six criteria of the United Nations Convention against Genocide, Russia is committing genocide in Mariupol, says Inter­na­tional law expert Otto Luchterhandt.

An answer to Wladimir Putin’s fine tuned op-ed in the German weekly Die Zeit by Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity.

On January 17 the Centre for Liberal Modernity held its second inter­na­tional Russia conference. This year’s topic was if Germany’s policy of detente of the 1970s can offer any guidance...

What will be at stake when Moscow and Beijing begin to share their lessons?