Finally: Here are the Insights and High­lights of our Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence “Rethink­ing Lib­er­al­ism, Renew­ing Democracy”!

Dig­i­tal­iza­tion rep­re­sents one of the major chal­lenges of our time. Hence, it is crucial to obtain a pro­found under­stand­ing of the digital trans­for­ma­tion in order to be able to design and steer it.

Lukas Daubner argues that the liberal forces of all stripes should once again take a pos­i­tive view of the future.

Only tem­porar­ily, says Michael Zürn, Direc­tor at the Berlin Social Science Center. 

Lib­er­al­ism is a polit­i­cal per­sua­sion devoted to the pursuit of human flour­ish­ing. It demands that, at a minimum, every indi­vid­ual must be per­mit­ted to write its own life’s story, unob­structed by fear,...

Emo­tions play a huge role in pop­ulist pol­i­tics. Lib­er­als have largely over­seen the impor­tance of emo­tions. Pop­ulists are able to use fear and other emo­tions against liberal democ­racy. But the answer...

Fly less! Eat less meat! In the strug­gle against climate change, there is one thing in par­tic­u­lar we should do: mod­er­ate our lifestyles. Indi­vid­ual respon­si­bil­ity def­i­nitely matters. Will renun­ci­a­tion and...

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...

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.