Defending Freedom

On this date 74 years ago, the Red Army lib­er­ated the Auschwitz-Birke­­nau exter­mi­na­tion camp. The 27th of January became the Day of Remem­brance for the Victims of National Social­ism. Much has...

For decades, Sinol­o­gists who were largely blind to China’s expan­sive power pol­i­tics have dom­i­nated Germany’s polit­i­cal advice circles, cul­ti­vat­ing an image of China that our author calls “Late Ori­en­tal­ism”. Shaped...

Over the last 200 years, Lib­er­al­ism has been a stun­ning success story. It brought forward liberty and pros­per­ity for the many instead of priv­i­leges for the few. Yet, today liberal think­ing and...

A summary of the elec­tions in Bavaria, one of the major German states with more then 9 million voters.

Sandra Detzer und Sebas­t­ian Schaf­fer of the German Greens travel to Sweden where the right-wing-pop­ulist “Sweden Democ­rats” could win the elec­tion in Sep­tem­ber. But where danger is, rescue also grows:...

Society is caught up in a whirl­wind of change. The power of liberal democ­ra­cies is dwin­dling and the polit­i­cal balance in the world is shift­ing. An inter­view with Ralf Fücks on...

The anti-liberal revolt ist not limited to the US and Europe. Ten­den­cies towards an ‘illib­eral democ­racy’ and ethnic nation­al­ism can be observed in Israel as well. The Israeli author Dahlia...

What the deci­sion for another „Grand Coali­tion” led by Chan­cel­lor Merkel implies for Germany, EU and the Transat­lantic Alliance.

In the coali­tion agree­ment, the CDU and the SPD dodge impor­tant reforms and take a scat­ter­shot approach to the dis­tri­b­u­tion of a great deal of money. The big chal­lenges, like climate, demo­graphic...

The five AfD Members of the Bun­destag from Saxony are among the most radical in the party’s (Alter­na­tive for Germany) par­lia­men­tary group. At a party event near Pirna, the party base...

Karen Horn reminds us of for­got­ten, pio­neer­ing thinkers on liberty and high­lights the nec­es­sary con­tra­dic­tion within which a modern lib­er­al­ism exists: the tension between lim­it­ing state influ­ence and rec­og­niz­ing that influ­ence...

The EU as we knew it does not exist anymore. This is Ivan Krastev’s point of depar­ture. The opti­mistic belief in the idea of progress that was widely held during...

There can be no liberal moder­nity without social justice, which is why nothing can surpass the social demo­c­ra­tic idea, which has been mar­gin­al­ized in the current SPD. Anyone, who is...

The rapid pace of mod­erni­sa­tion renders people sus­cep­ti­ble to pop­ulism. In cos­mopoli­tan milieus, this came as a sur­prise. Yet the warning signs had long been appar­ent.

What’s the Center for Liberal Moder­nity is about.

About the motives for found­ing a Center for Liberal Moder­nity.