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. 

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...