Bill Gates often invokes VACLAV SMIL as his “favorite thinker.” Indeed, Smil is one of the deeper, more original and independent big minds out there today. His book titles range from The Bad Earth and The Cycles of Life to Harvesting the Biosphere .
Leszek Kolakowski, who died in 2009, was professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and a fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University. His critical, magisterial study of the history of Marxism and his perpetual doubt and self‐questioning, which led to a preoccupation with “the revenge of the sacred” in secular life, earned him a reputation as modern Europe's Erasmus.Just after he published Modernity on Endless Trial in 1991, Kolakowski sat down with me in his study at All Souls College. The following conversation was also published in Kolakowski's last book, My Correct Views on Everything.
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 1 p. 24-26 Original Article What China's Internet Has Become PONY MA, Founder, chairman and CEO of Tencent, the world's most valuable social media company. This article is adapted from “China at Your Fingertips,” part of the forthcoming book series, “Understanding China,” edited by Zheng Bijian.Search for more papers by this author PONY MA, Founder, chairman and CEO of Tencent, the world's most valuable social media company. This article is adapted from “China at Your Fingertips,” part of the forthcoming book series, “Understanding China,” edited by Zheng Bijian.Search for more papers by this author First published: 24 January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12189AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue1January 2019Pages 24-26 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 1 p. 42-44 Original Article This Is Absolutely Unacceptable CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, Executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016.Search for more papers by this author CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, Executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016.Search for more papers by this author First published: 24 January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12194AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue1January 2019Pages 42-44 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 14-21 Original Article Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being PETER SLOTERDIJK, Germany's most controversial thinker and media theorist. He has dared to challenge long-established divisions in traditional philosophy of body and soul, subject and object, culture and nature. His 1999 lecture on “Regulations for the Human Park,” in which he argued that genetic engineering was a continuation of human striving for self-creation, stirred up a tempest in a country known for Nazi eugenics. At the same time, he himself has concluded that “the taming of man has failed” as civilization's potential for barbarism has grown ever greater. His seminal books include Critique of Cynical Reason and his trilogy, Spheres.Search for more papers by this author PETER SLOTERDIJK, Germany's most controversial thinker and media theorist. He has dared to challenge long-established divisions in traditional philosophy of body and soul, subject and object, culture and nature. His 1999 lecture on “Regulations for the Human Park,” in which he argued that genetic engineering was a continuation of human striving for self-creation, stirred up a tempest in a country known for Nazi eugenics. At the same time, he himself has concluded that “the taming of man has failed” as civilization's potential for barbarism has grown ever greater. His seminal books include Critique of Cynical Reason and his trilogy, Spheres.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12224AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 14-21 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 44-47 Original Article How China Plans To Inhabit Its Future REM KOOLHAAS, Spoke with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels in 2017 about China's urban future.Search for more papers by this author REM KOOLHAAS, Spoke with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels in 2017 about China's urban future.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12229 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 44-47 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 2-5 Commentary The Return To Somewhere A search for belonging marks the advent of post-globalization NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQ, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQ, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12222AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 2-5 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 28-35 Original Article Beijing Report NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12210AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume36, Issue2May 2019Pages 28-35 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 2-2 Editorial In this issue of NPQ… NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQ, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQ, NATHAN GARDELS Editor, NPQSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12214AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue2May 2019Pages 2-2 RelatedInformation
Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. One of the West's foremost political philosophers, he authored several seminal works, including Karl Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, Four Essays on Liberty, Vico and Herder and The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas.We sat down for several rambling hours of conversation at a cafe in the small harbor in Portofino, Italy, at the end of the summer in 1991.
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 13-15 Original Article The Refugee Crisis Is Your Responsibility DAVID MILIBAND, DAVID MILIBAND President of the International Rescue Committee. He was the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010.Search for more papers by this author DAVID MILIBAND, DAVID MILIBAND President of the International Rescue Committee. He was the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010.Search for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12204AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue2May 2019Pages 13-15 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 1 p. 20-22 Original Article Trump's Protectionism Might Just Save The WTO PASCAL LAMY, PASCAL LAMY Director-general of the World Trade Organization from 2005–2013. He is also a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council.Search for more papers by this author PASCAL LAMY, PASCAL LAMY Director-general of the World Trade Organization from 2005–2013. He is also a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council.Search for more papers by this author First published: 24 January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12187Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume36, Issue1January 2019Pages 20-22 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 3-11 Original Article Renovating Democracy NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor of NPQ. This essay is adapted from his talk at the SXSW Festival on March 12, 2019.Search for more papers by this author NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor of NPQ. This essay is adapted from his talk at the SXSW Festival on March 12, 2019.Search for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12202AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume36, Issue2May 2019Pages 3-11 RelatedInformation
The megacities arising around the planet are like the Internet where many events are taking place simultaneously. The urban scape today is becoming more a space of flows—migrants, trade, capital, information, microbes—than a space of places rooted in an historical identity.The megaurban condition today encompasses many realities, from the glittering generic city‐state of Singapore to the slums climbing up the hillsides around Mexico City or Sao Paulo. In these spaces we work, love and live out the intimate moments of our lives. In these spaces we consume and spew out climate warming gases.In this section, two of the world's “star architects”—Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry—the visionary “arcologist” Paolo Soleri and the Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate, Orhan Pamuk, grasp at chronicling the reality of where we live.
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 3 p. 6-56 Original Article Rethinking Democracy NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor of NPQ.Search for more papers by this authorNICOLAS BERGGRUEN, NICOLAS BERGGRUEN Chairman of the Berggruen Institute and publisher of The WorldPost.Search for more papers by this author NATHAN GARDELS, NATHAN GARDELS Editor of NPQ.Search for more papers by this authorNICOLAS BERGGRUEN, NICOLAS BERGGRUEN Chairman of the Berggruen Institute and publisher of The WorldPost.Search for more papers by this author First published: 02 September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12218Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume36, Issue3July 2019Pages 6-56 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 6-13 Original Article Human History Will End When Men Become Gods YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Israeli historian and the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens, has a new book out about the future of humanity, called Homo Deus. In 2017, he sat down with NPQ at a Berggruen Institute salon in Los Angeles. In the following interview, he discusses the new authority of “dataism” and godlike powers of science to redesign humanity and create an inorganic, new species—artificial intelligence.Search for more papers by this author YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Israeli historian and the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens, has a new book out about the future of humanity, called Homo Deus. In 2017, he sat down with NPQ at a Berggruen Institute salon in Los Angeles. In the following interview, he discusses the new authority of “dataism” and godlike powers of science to redesign humanity and create an inorganic, new species—artificial intelligence.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12223AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 6-13 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 35-39 Original Article Mass Urban Migration Is The Epic Story of Our Time ORHAN PAMUK, Stands out as a novelist who, from his lifelong perch in Istanbul, uniquely straddles East and West. In this conversation with NPQ in 2015, he discusses his new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, the global story of mass urban migration and the prospects for the next election with Turkey embroiled in political turmoil.Search for more papers by this author ORHAN PAMUK, Stands out as a novelist who, from his lifelong perch in Istanbul, uniquely straddles East and West. In this conversation with NPQ in 2015, he discusses his new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, the global story of mass urban migration and the prospects for the next election with Turkey embroiled in political turmoil.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12227 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 35-39 RelatedInformation
New Perspectives QuarterlyVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 22-27 Original Article The World Is Returning To Pluralism After American Hegemony PETER SLOTERDIJK, Spoke NPQ editor Nathan Gardels in January 2018.Search for more papers by this author PETER SLOTERDIJK, Spoke NPQ editor Nathan Gardels in January 2018.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/npqu.12225AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue4October 2019Pages 22-27 RelatedInformation
Bill Gates often invokes VACLAV SMIL as his “favorite thinker.” Indeed, Smil is one of the deeper, more original and independent big minds out there today. His book titles range from The Bad Earth and The Cycles of Life to Harvesting the Biosphere .
In 2013, NPQ editor Nathan Gardels spoke with Google's executive chairman ERIC SCHMIDT, and the director of the Google Ideas think tank, JARED COHEN, about their new book, The Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business.
