Thinking Cannot Be a Campaign
LMC 2019
A Glimmer of Hope at the End of 2020?
2020 has shaken the world, but is there a glimmer of hope at the end of the year? In the transatlantic community expectations are high for some sort of renaissance in relations between Europe and the US when Joe Biden takes over the White House…
LMC 2020
The Era of Resentment: Causes and Solutions
In this session, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and the Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum get into the bottom of the motives and the rationale of people who create the mythology and the language of modern authoritarian populism. It is not the sense…
LMC 2020
The Different Faces of Identity and Politics Today
A conversation with the former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and the American thinker and political theorist Francis Fukuyama, professor at Stanford University. Identity is inevitable, says professor Fukuyama, but how to make it a solution and not a source of problems? How should one…
LMC 2020