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...

Wednes­day October 14. 7 pm‑8.30 pm – via Zoom

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...

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 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.