What does it mean to me free? Lea Ypi is the author of the award-winning biography “Free: Coming of Age at the end of History”. It’s a book about growing up in communist Albania in the 80s, and then experiencing the broken promise of freedom under capitalism. We discuss if and where freedom can be found in systems of oppression, and its limitations in liberal democracy

Katrina Forrester on the questions of liberty, equality and how capitalism structures politics, life and how we think about ourselves and the others

Katrina Forrester on the questions of liberty, equality and how capitalism structures politics, life and how we think about ourselves and the others

What is democracy, how has it changed over time? And is today‘s form compatible with tomorrow’s challenges? What would it mean to expand the “demos” that makes up the polis? And how to think about democracy in the time of climate emergency? Listen to activist, thinker and writer Astra Taylor in conversation with Karin Pettersson and Georg Diez.

Is the world’s reaction to the pandemic a massive failure or something more hopeful? What will happen with the world economy when it starts to open up? How important is China’s new climate policy and how disappointed will the left be with Joe Biden? A conversation with Adam Tooze, history professor at Columbia university.

Philosopher Martin Hägglund, author of This Life, in conversation with Aftonbladet's Karin Pettersson and Georg Diez from the New Institute

NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Schibsted and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel.

Philosopher, internet-dystopian, Guardian-columnist and author Evgeny Morozov in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Schibsted and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel.

Journalist and author of the best-selling book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” Katrine Marcal in conversation with Karin Pettersson and Georg Diez.

Political scientist and expert on political extremism Cas Mudde in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 Pages.

Techno-sociologist, author, New York Times-columnist and expert on the impacts of social media Zeynep Tufekci in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Yascha Mounk, political scientist and expert on populism, in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Pankaj Mishra, the Indian thinker and writer, in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

In the wake of Brexit and the Trumpian tragedy, Peter Pomerantsev of the London School of Economics talks about the transgressive energy in political characters like Trump, an energy that used to be located on the left, since the 1960s, and is now claimed by the right. This has drastic consequences for democracy in an age of a constant information overload due to the digital technologies: If everybody is presumed to be lying, people turn to the one that is most fun to listen to. The digital tools have become a danger for democracy.

Internationally renown journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Joi Ito, entrepreneur and director of MiT Media Lab in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Ethan Zuckerman, Internet activist, media scholar and director of MIT:s civic media lab, in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Dani Rodrik, economist at the Harvard Kennedy School in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages.

Daron Aceomoglu, world leading economist and author of ”Why Nations Fail” in conversation with Karin Pettersson/Aftonbladet and Georg Diez/Der Spiegel/60 pages

French election special edition. Karin Pettersson, Aftonbladet, and Georg Diez, Der Spiegel/60 pages meet Art Goldhammer, expert on French politics at Harvard, to discuss the election result and how to think about the political challenges for Macron in the years ahead.