In an opinion poll of 19 mostly Western democracies conducted last year, almost half of respondents said they were dissatisfied with how democracy...
CAN DEMOCRACY TOLERATE INTOLERANCE AND SURVIVE?
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Stories
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...
Pricing the Priceless: The ultimate, maybe the only climate solution / Paula DiPerna
Humanity is hardwired to value the valuable, to conserve even to hoard treasure. The atmosphere, the oceans, earth’s ecosystem are vital to life,...
The Trials of Donald Trump
Imagine a new blockbuster movie in which a former American president, running for re-election, is criminally indicted not once or twice, but four...
Trump Agonistes / Joon Kim
Donald Trump continues to make history: he is the only American president (serving or former) ever to have been criminally indicted. He already...