Culture, History, Politics, Society
Treasury
Politics, Society
Rob Riemen
The War and the Future
On the occasion of the Nexus Conference 2022: The War and the Future
Culture, History, Politics, Society
Robert Cooper
Hope and Dover Beach
The big questions today are whether politics has been or will be captured by the forces of darkness – so that we will be robbed of our hopes and our future; and whether, having lost faith in faith, we are now going to lose faith in politics too
Songs of Hope
Hope Regained. A New World
Presentation Nexus 88
Revolution! The Political Crisis of our Time
Culture, Politics
William Deresiewicz
Wokeness on Campus: The Reign of Stupidity
There are no competing ideologies or rival schools [...] There is only assent. And when there’s but a single ideology, it isn’t just an ideology. It’s a religion. Its ideas aren’t ideas; they are dogmas.
History, Politics
Richard J. Evans
Brexit: Refighting the Second World War
Football has sometimes been described as a substitute for war
Politics
Kate Brown
Kiss the Ground: Life Support in Controlled Environments
MIT Professor Kate Brown on how consumerism is eating away a just and livable future
Philosophy
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Lost in Thought
An excellent example of what it aims to capture: solid, high-quality, splendidly useless thinking in action.
Culture, Politics
Apocalypse Now? Causes of Anxiety in our Age
Culture, Politics
Amor Mundi. How to End the Age of Anxiety?
Culture, Politics
Keynote Wole Soyinka, Nexus Conference 2020
Culture, Politics
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Conference 2020
Philosophy
Humberto Beck
The Return of Ivan Illich in Times of Corona
It will depend on us whether the coronavirus will result in a new catastrophe, or in a new beginning.
History
Simon Winder
Goodbye to History
The author of Danubia and Germania shows what we can learn from 20th-century German history.
My Experiences with and Lessons from the Rwandan Genocide
Humanism, Philosophy
George Steiner
The Life of the Mind
Can the life of the mind, the love of truth and beauty, be sustained in a time of materialism and mass democracy?
History
Catherine Nixey
The Evil of Christianity
‘Good’ and ‘evil’ as fundamentally opposed came into the world with Christianity. This wasn’t good.
Literature, Philosophy
The Unnamable Present
A wealth of topics: from Baudelaire to Kafka, Benjamin and Weil; from sacrifice to the sacred, the process of secularization and digital society.
Art, Politics
Being Hans Castorp in Our Time
Religion, Society
When the Gods Remain Silent
Politics, Religion