Der Weg in die Unfreiheit

Timothy Snyder 2015

Timothy Snyder explains the Holocaust not from German antisemitism alone but from the destruction of states: where no st…

Ta-Nehisi Coates 2016

A long letter to his son. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about what it means to inhabit a black body in America, and refuses, d…

Michael Lewis 2010

Michael Lewis tells the 2008 financial crisis through the few who saw it coming and bet against it. He explains the inst…

Satya Nadella 2017

Satya Nadella describes rebuilding Microsoft from the inside, away from being right and towards listening. Half corporat…

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 2013

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Kenneth Cukier on the shift from sampling to counting everything, and on what is lost when…

Kai Strittmatter 2018

Kai Strittmatter, for decades a correspondent in Beijing, on the Chinese surveillance state and on how new it really is.