Kategorie: In Originalsprache – Seite 2

Hate speech is a real problem. But takedowns and deplatforming are ineffective and carry damaging side effects. A better and more liberal response is to confront hateful speech directly.

In Institutionen wie der Landsgemeinde in Appenzell zeigt sich das Vertrauen, das aus Vorhersagen entsteht, die mit der Realität übereinstimmen. Bild: Keystone/Christian Merz.

Before trust became a civic virtue, it was a biological need. Every living thing survives by betting that the world will behave in intelligible ways.

Elites have lost the trust of the public. To regain it, they need to change their operating model.

Nathalie Nahai, zvg.

Artificial intelligence is harming our mental health and is eroding the foundations of our societies. These outcomes are not inevitable – they are shaped by incentives. It’s time to change them.

Anti-liberal movements are gaining strength, including within open societies. Cass Sunstein explains why liberalism must be more than an ideology, why freedom requires “freedom from fear,” and where its greatest dangers now lie.

Adam Smith (1723–1790) kritisierte sowohl staatliche Übergriffe als auch die Macht privater Monopole. Bild: Wikimedia Commons.

Adam Smith still sets the terms of our economic quarrels: when should markets coordinate, when must the state steer, and who keeps power in check?

Hrvoje Tkalčić: «When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond». Princeton University Press, 2026. Bild: Joanna Joos

The planet beneath us shifts, fractures, and convulses. As Hrvoje Tkalčić shows, stability is not Earth’s natural state but a human achievement.

Mathematics protects property, a metaphor for what Bitcoin achieves. Image: AI-generated.

Bitcoin shifts the balance of property toward defense and hence toward the individual, laying the foundation for peace and prosperity.

Thomas Sowell traces political attitudes back to different worldviews. Image: Wikimedia Commons, 1964.

American economist Thomas Sowell described the ideological origins of current political conflicts over thirty years ago. His analysis explains why left-wing utopians fail in the face of reality.

Complexity vs. Consent: The contrast between the self-reinforcing machinery of international bureaucracy and Switzerland’s model of citizen-led discipline

Democracies are not collapsing. They are quietly being hijacked—by rules, agencies, and subsidies that grow while citizens sleep. Switzerland alone shows what happens when government is forced to fear its people, not the other way around.