Treasury

Rob Riemen

The Quest for Vision in the Era of Confusion, Corruption and Foolishness

Introducing the topic of the Nexus Conference 2024

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History, Politics, Society

Kishore Mahbubani

The Asian Century: peaceful or not?

The 21st century will be the Asian century. On this, there’s no doubt. The only question is whether it will be peaceful or not.

History, Philosophy, Science, Society

Ray Monk

Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer on War and the Bomb

What are the lessons we have to learn from thinkers like Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer for our time? As it happens, all three of these thinkers have grappled, in fascinatingly contrasting ways, with questions of war and peace, and much could be learned from investigating how they did so.

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Philosophy, Politics, Society

Donatella Di Cesare

Peace is not over

We must defect from the world of death that is being designed around us. And demand a return to democratic politics, in the proper sense of the word.

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Culture, History, Society

Zena Hitz

The Division of Labor and the Sources of Consolation

The capacities to think, to study, to know and to understand are human capacities. This may seem like the most dull and obvious claim in the world, and yet we have forgotten it.

Francesco Boldizzoni

Do we still need social democracy?

I am far from believing that social democracy is viable anywhere in the world. But if there is a natural home for it, it is Europe.

Politics, Science, Society

Nexus Lecture 2022

What’s the matter with capitalism?

There is much to be said for capitalism. But it also has it dangers, not in the last place: its current threat to democracy.

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Music

Q&A plus jam session with Wynton Marsalis

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Music, Society

Calling Dr. Jazz: the Case for Integrity

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Music

A Renaissance Man: Rob Riemen introduces Wynton Marsalis

Live

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Politics, Society

Tariq Ramadan

I am European

To say ‘I am European’ implies, first and foremost, an open identity, support for transnational solidarity and acceptance of international responsibilities.

Politics, Society

Allan Janik

On being European

Citizens of European national states who want to become Europeans today do well to remind themselves of the ideas that guided Robert Schuman’s efforts to heal the wounds of a society that had all but self-destructed in the course of the two world wars. To re-examine the roots of his thinking is to re-discover perhaps the most important of well-springs of European unity.

History, Politics, Society

Adin Steinsaltz

I am European

To sum up: the spirit of contemporary Europe is like that of a person past middle age, a semi-retired gentleman. Things have quieted down; most of the ferocious struggles of olden times are now abating.

A sense of possibility

A sense of reality

Art, Culture, Philosophy

Lesley Chamberlain

Van Gogh and the light around a pair of boots

In Cuesmes, Van Gogh learnt about physical work, and philosophy after him embroidered the significance of work.

How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Life is Hard

The book is filled to the brim with interesting ideas and arguments, well-chosen illustrations from literature and cinema, and courageous confessions taken from Setiya’s own life.