Large Lying Models: How Digitalization Weakens Trust
Artificial intelligence is harming our mental health and is eroding the foundations of our societies. These outcomes are not inevitable – they are shaped by incentives. It’s time to change them.
In Originalsprache
“To say that liberalism eats at tradition is a fairy tale”
Anti-liberal movements are gaining strength, including within open societies. Cass Sunstein explains why liberalism must be more than an ideology, why freedom requires “freedom from fear,” and where its greatest dangers now lie.
Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” turns 250: Why It Still Matters
Adam Smith still sets the terms of our economic quarrels: when should markets coordinate, when must the state steer, and who keeps power in check?
Built on Moving Ground
The planet beneath us shifts, fractures, and convulses. As Hrvoje Tkalčić shows, stability is not Earth’s natural state but a human achievement.
Bitcoin is civilization written in code
Bitcoin shifts the balance of property toward defense and hence toward the individual, laying the foundation for peace and prosperity.
Saving the World Leaves no Room for Dissent
American economist Thomas Sowell described the ideological origins of current political conflicts over thirty years ago. His analysis explains why left-wing utopians fail in the face of reality.
Why Brussels Should Be Applying to Switzerland Instead
Democracies are not collapsing. They are quietly being hijacked—by rules, agencies, and subsidies that grow while citizens sleep. Switzerland alone shows what happens when government is forced to fear its people, not the other way around.
Peak Trump: Five Predictions for 2026
My predictions are provocative by nature, but plausible in substance. Above all, they are intended to stimulate thought.
The Inconvenient Truths About Dating in Zurich
Zurich is full of attractive, intelligent people who almost never meet each other. Not because they don’t want to, but because the dating market here is structurally illiquid. The good news is that this is neither fate nor unfairness. It is liquidity, and liquidity can be created.
There’s more innovation than ever – but instead of technological breakthroughs, we just get 5000 different breakfast cereals
Firms today invest more in Research and Development than in the past, yet productivity is growing at a slower rate. Why? Because the very nature of innovation has changed.
Venezuela sin Maduro: La dictadura ha perdido su cabeza, pero aún no su rostro brutal
El fin de Nicolás Maduro da a los venezolanos esperanzas de libertad. Sin embargo, los secuaces del régimen siguen sembrando el miedo y el terror, y los presos políticos permanecen en sus mazmorras.
How not to victimize the poor
Well-intentioned development policies often fail because they misunderstand the agency, knowledge, and informal institutions of the poor. It’s time to reestablish the most natural alliance between capitalism and the poor.
Venezuela tras Maduro: el fin de un tirano aún no es el comienzo de la libertad
La caída de Nicolás Maduro es celebrada en muchos lugares como un punto de inflexión histórico. La experiencia con los regímenes autoritarios, sin embargo, muestra que la parte más difícil de una transición exitosa comienza precisamente después.
Argentina, dos años después: el giro histórico de Javier Milei
Dos años después de asumir el cargo, el presidente Milei presenta un balance impresionante: inflación a la baja, finanzas públicas saneadas y una economía que vuelve a crecer.
«I Don’t Want to Save the World – I Want to Save My Family»
Federico Sturzenegger, Argentina’s Minister of Deregulation and State Reform, is the chief architect of Javier Milei’s reform agenda. In this interview, he explains what it takes to scrap absurd laws and why Guy Parmelin wears a chainsaw lapel pin.
«No quiero salvar el mundo – quiero salvar a mi familia»
Federico Sturzenegger, ministro de Desregulación y Reforma del Estado en Argentina, es el principal artífice de la agenda de reformas de Javier Milei. En esta entrevista explica qué hace falta para derogar leyes absurdas y por qué Guy Parmelin lleva un pin con una motosierra.