The future of liberal democracies | Chatham House (video)

The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and The Honorable Henry A Kissinger 

“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order | Stefan Kolev at PROMARKET

 

In the early 1930s, Eucken and the lawyer Franz Böhm had founded the Freiburg School of ordoliberalism as a research community in law and economics

The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data

 written by Eric Kaufmann  at quillette.com

via Jerry Coyne

Academia has become a closed system, a moral community defined by a set of sacred progressive values. The surge of no-platformings which took off in America in 2015 and hit Britain in 2018–19, or the fivefold jump in the rate of cancelling American academics which took place in 2019, present merely the tip of an iceberg of self-censorship ... (read on)

"Youth and Satisfaction with Democracy" (Report)

 This report was prepared at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and forms part of the work of the Centre for the Future of Democracy.

The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes

 via The Guardian

Although human existence is enveloped by ideologies, remarkably little is understood about the relationships between ideological attitudes and psychological traits. Even less is known about how cognitive dispositions—individual differences in how information is perceived and processed— sculpt individuals’ ideological worldviews,

How Vaccines Are Made | THE ECONOMIST

 "...it is one thing to design and test vaccines. It is another to make them at sufficient scale to generate the billions of doses needed to vaccinate the world’s population, and to do so at such speed that the rate of inoculation can outpace the spread and possible mutation of the virus."

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean | Brookings

Greco-Turkish maritime disputes, couched in competing narratives of national sovereignty, are nothing new. Their genesis dates as far back as the founding periods of the two states. These disputes have traditionally taken the form of a frozen conflict, with occasional flare-ups. Given this backdrop, what are the driving factors behind the current dispute, which is the longest-lasting crisis between the two countries since Turkey’s military intervention in Cyprus in 1974?