Bio
Georg is a writer and long-time journalist working for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Die Zeit and as a political columnist for Spiegel Online. He studied history and philosophy in Munich, Paris, Hamburg and Berlin and spent 2016/17 a year as a Nieman fellow at Harvard. The nature and scope of the present crisis made him change course and join THE NEW INSTITUTE.
QUESTIONS
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What gives you hope?
My children. -
How does change happen?
Changes happen when the right people get together at the right moment; and then it takes a lot of luck and hard work. -
If you could have a conversation with one person (dead or alive) who would it be?
George Eliot, who saw politics and people in their mutual web, who wrote about love, longing and loss and turned all of this into maybe the best novel of all times, “Middlemarch”.
LATEST
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interview
Capitalism is the Main ProblemKim Stanley Robinson on climate change and speculative fiction
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editorial
Beyond the WarGeorg Diez on History and Memory.
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PAPER EDITION
On HopeHope is a promise, a contradiction, a quiet revolution.
Ece Temelkuran | Markus Gabriel | Lea Ypi | Jonathan White | Georg Diez |
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editorial
On Hope – EditorialHope is promise and practice. Hope is about agency and community, it is both private and political and has the potential to transform us and, in the process, the world.
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interview
The Voice of the PeopleDeliberative democracy is an innovative concept to redefine and reinvigorate the reality of citizenship in the 21st century...
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interview
Community“Peek greed” – this is what Sir Paul Collier calls the present state of mind, both in business and society.
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interview
At the core of the idea of citizenship is the refugee: Homi Bhabha on Democracy for the 21st CenturyHomi Bhabha was the perfect person to talk to about the outcome of the U.S. election – a scholar of multiculturalism with a keen eye for...
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We Live Under Minority Rule: Daniel Ziblatt on American DemocracyDaniel Ziblatt is sitting in his study in Newton, not far from the Harvard campus where he normally teaches as the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government...
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podcast
Martin Hägglund’s Radical Secularism: “Freedom is Impossible under Capitalism”What is the meaning of death? Or, as the philosopher would say: finitude? In other words, if live must end - isn’t that the ultimate limit to our existence, the very opposite of freedom?
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interview
Freedom and BetrayalLea Ypi has an academic mind and an activist heart. She aims for an “activist political theory”, as she states in her book on global justice.
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interview
Social ImaginationGeoff Mulgan is one of the most curious and constructive thinkers and practitioners around. He used to work in politics, he founded and ran big think tanks...