Archive - The Protopia Conversations

Sleepwalking into totalitarianism – Part 2

How and why we are destroying our democracies in the name of saving them.

May 7 •

Micha Narberhaus

April 2024

Sleepwalking into totalitarianism – Part 1

How our 'liberal' democracies are becoming illiberal and increasingly totalitarian

Apr 22 •

Micha Narberhaus

"Is progress a belief or a fact?"

Protopia Lab organises a talk and a seminar with Mary Harrington in Barcelona on 22 and 23 May

Apr 16 •

Micha Narberhaus

February 2024

Not having children to save the planet is tragic

It won't be climate change that could end our civilisation, but demographic decline.

Feb 29 •

Micha Narberhaus

November 2023

Toward a politics of limits

Virtues become vices when carried to an extreme

Nov 22, 2023 •

Micha Narberhaus

October 2023

“Open discourse is the central pillar of a free society”

The Westminster Declaration

Oct 18, 2023 •

Micha Narberhaus

April 2023

Why we need to talk about post-liberalism

A new era has already begun, but can still go in different directions

Apr 26, 2023 •

Micha Narberhaus

November 2022

The difficulty of difficult conversations

Reflection on our recent Protopia Lab workshop in Barcelona

Nov 24, 2022 •

Micha Narberhaus

September 2022

The fatal consequences of Twitter's simplistic, linear moralism

How could it be that wearing masks (often even outside in the fresh air) became 'one of the most effective instruments' to fight the Covid-19 pandemic…

Sep 17, 2022 •

Micha Narberhaus

May 2022

The uncomfortable truth of polarisation

Last December, the then newly elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a television interview: “There is no division of society in Germany". He was…

May 11, 2022 •

Micha Narberhaus

March 2022

Who is right? Germany or the rest of the world?

Germany believes it is leading the way on climate change, the rest of the world believes it is destroying its economy and harming the climate

Mar 31, 2022 •

Micha Narberhaus

The fresh conversation(s) we need to have to make our democracies strong again

The British comedian and podcaster of Russian origin, Konstantin Kisin, has been arguing for years that Western democracies have become weak and that at…

Mar 17, 2022 •

Micha Narberhaus

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