Essays & News

Europe’s southeastern neighborhood – the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea region and the Caucasus – has long been an arena for major geopolitical actors to vie for influence. And Turkey lies at the center of this crucial nexus.

Obwohl sich die Geschichte der progressiven Besteuerung leicht von den Erfahrungen unserer heutigen Zeit über die Französische Revolution oder die Absicht der Medici ihre Macht durch eine steile Progression zu erhalten, bis ins klassische Griechenland zurückverfolgen lässt[1], wurde die Idee im Ganzen und Grossen seit jeher als ungerecht empfunden.

Restricting trade for the sake of fighting climate change risks having the opposite effect.

Tech tycoons are perfectly capable of making bad business decisions like the rest of us humble mortals. But do not blast them when they stand for free speech.

The wisdom that people lose their freedom as soon as words begin to lose their meaning can easily be traced back at least to Confucius (551-479BC) or Aristotle (384-322BC). About 2,000 years later among many other thinkers, it was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) who observed that reality becomes intelligible only through clear and uncorrupted words, and […]