Musk Does Not Want to Challenge the State. He Wants to Own It.
Elon Musk makes headlines almost daily. Depending on the audience, people quote his statements and either repeat them as mantras or hold them up as symptoms of global issues. To the left-critique, he became a bogeyman. To the neoliberal and tech establishment, he is an emblem of the entrepreneurial model. Around his figure, book publishers have already developed an industry of biographies which often turn into hagiographies.
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27.10.2026
Musk Does Not Want to Challenge the State. He Wants to Own It.
Elon Musk makes headlines almost daily. Depending on the audience, people quote his statements and either repeat them as mantras or hold them up as symptoms of global issues. [...]
13.10.2026
The Politics of Choice
Consumer culture, democratic elections, the feminist struggle, and the language of human rights all echo a familiar narrative: the more options we have, the freer we are. We [...]
Podcasts and interviews
All Interviews and Podcasts26.10.2026
The Politics of Europe’s Panic – A Conversation with Francesco Trupia
The CEU Democracy Institute’s annual conference, with the title Imaginary Exhaustion? asked to what extent today’s democracies are trapped by fear and exhaustion, and how we might rebuild our [...]
19.10.2026
Lose Together, Win Alone: Opposition Lessons from Hungary and Turkey
In the new episode of our special series produced in collaboration with the Journal of Democracy, we are joined by Edgar Şar and Pelin Ayan Musil to discuss their article “Why Oppositions Lose [...]