After 40 years of economic growth based on debt, the era of  “debt capitalism” has come to an end, says Wolfgang Streeck. The Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne gave a remarkable interview (in German) last week that I would like to share with you, in advance [...]

When Francis Fukuyama declared “the end of history” at the end of the Cold War, he wasn’t completely wrong. The history of ideas stopped. I know that philosophy is no longer trendy, but we have to face it: Ideologies have played a vitally important role in human history. Whether the Enlightenment, capitalism, communism, fascism, socialism, [...]

In early May London’s Barbican Centre showed its audience the lost and re-discovered propaganda films of the Marshall Plan. Produced between 1948 and 1953 these films taught the wider Western European public about democratic values and free trade market principles. The Barbican screening was made possible through the Selling Democracy Project, curated by Sandra Schulberg [...]