Mastodawn

“But the #geopolitical #rupture currently underway is no accident of history, nor is it simply the result of #strongmen, #weakinstitutions, or a sudden loss of restraint. It mirrors something more fundamental: the social soil of our #societies.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

The Demand Side of Our New Pol...

Daniel Sachs calls attention to the root causes of declining trust in institutions and the rules-based order.

Project Syndicate

What do you notice when you look around?

The #Wittgenstein Centre has announced CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington as their first #WICConference2026 keynote speaker, exploring how #education, #family trajectories, and #lifecourse decisions shape #societies and #opportunities over time.

🎓 A must-attend event for #researchers, #policymakers, #students, and anyone interested in the future of #demography and #humancapital.

Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: @hab_wf

Our new article in #Societies (2026):

#EcoTechnoPolitics:
Beyond Digital–Green Twin Transitions

Digital infrastructures are ecological.
Sustainability is political.
Governance must be planetary.
Twin transitions aren’t enough.

On Growth and Form or Life by Analogy

Amy C. T. Serrat

Why we’re seeing a resurgence in Sigmund #Freud's relevance

Not as the cigar-chomping Viennese patriarch of caricature, nor as the dogmatist dismissed by late 20th-century science.

But as someone more unsettling and more useful: a guide to understanding why rational #societies repeatedly behave irrationally.

SIGMUND Freud is back.

The National

Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: @hab_wf