On August 23, 1934, economist Ludwig von Mises stood atop the Edelweißkopf in the Austrian Alps and made a far-reaching decision: he would leave Vienna. Mises foresaw the onset of totalitarianism earlier than most of…
For decades, the German Basic Law with its Article 5, Paragraph 3 – “Art and science, research and teaching shall be free” – served as an international gold standard. Anyone needing to report on state…
In the contemporary Berlin Republic, the boundaries of permissible public debate are shrinking at an unprecedented pace. While democratic societies traditionally thrived on open scientific discourse and conflicting hypotheses, a new form of state-sanctioned dogmatism…
Hardly any other figure status symbolizes the deep fracture within the German scientific landscape and the state’s ruthless handling of dissenting views as drastically as Prof. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi. For decades, the long-standing director of…