Dr. Ruth Faden explains what happened during COVID and how we can do better. According to the WHO, the COVID pandemic killed almost seven million...
Pandemic Fallout: Unmasking Ethical Failures / Ruth Faden
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What’s Wrong with America? / Lars Trägårdh
The United States seems to be on the verge of some kind of Judgement Day. Extreme partisanship, a past (and future?) president facing seemingly...
Blot Out the Sun? / Luke Iseman & Andrew Song
Luke Iseman and Andrew Song explain how they think they can cool the planet. Supposedly, Herodotus wrote that when the Greeks were told that the...
CAN DEMOCRACY TOLERATE INTOLERANCE AND SURVIVE?
In an opinion poll of 19 mostly Western democracies conducted last year, almost half of respondents said they were dissatisfied with how democracy...
Diplomatically Speaking / Ashok Mirpuri
"There is nothing dramatic in the success of a diplomatist. His victories are made up of a series of microscopic advantages: of a judicious...
Leadership in a World, Disrupted
In June, 2023, the Tällberg Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) organized a gathering of past winners and honorees of the...
Should We Tolerate the Intolerant? / Elisabeth Braw
"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the...
What’s the Point of Freedom if You Don’t Do Something With It? / Shahidul Alam
Shahidul Alam is many things: world-class photographer, Bangladeshi human rights activist, teacher, and author. He is also a provocateur, whose...
Is Uber Really More Valuable than the Planet?
The summer of 2023 might be remembered as the year that people almost everywhere finally began to understand what global warming means: unrelenting...