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DIE NATUR IST KEIN PARTEIMITGLIED de Harald Lesch & Axel Kleidon

Policy-makers must act now, but first, they need to understand how nature actually works. The physicists Harald Lesch and Axel Kleidon express frustration over the widespread unwillingness among broad political circles to understand how nature functions—an essay intended as a wake-up call.

DIE NATUR IST KEIN PARTEIMITGLIED
(Nature Belongs to No Party)
by Harald Lesch & Axel Kleidon
C. Bertelsmann/PRH Germany, March 2026

Again and again, political and economic leaders act as if we can simply ignore the laws of nature, and like to think that technology can perform magic tricks à la Harry Potter. In « Nature Belongs to No Party », two physicists speak truth to power: they explain in clear terms that nature does not negotiate, is not a party member and won’t cede to our demands. What exactly do energy-efficiency and climate protection entail? Why does energy depreciate? And what policies would a government that understands how nature works adopt?

DIE NATUR IST KEIN PARTEIMITGLIED is useful ammunition for anyone who’s as frustrated and angry as the authors about the seeming inability of politicians to tackle climate change head on.

Harald Lesch is a professor of theoretical astrophysics at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and one of Germany’s most famous scientists. He has presented several accessible and popular science programmes, and written and co-written many popular and bestselling books.

Axel Kleidon studied physics and meteorology at the universities of Hamburg and Purdue. After graduating with a PhD in meteorology, he did a postdoc at Stanford and joined the faculty of the University of Maryland. Since 2006, he has led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena. In his research, he uses thermodynamics to quantify natural energy conversions within the earth system, and applies this approach to understanding atmosphere-biosphere interactions, our planet’s response to global change, and the natural limits of renewable energy.

DIE ALLIANZ DER NEUEN RECHTEN d’Annett Meiritz & Juliane Schäuble

Make Europe Great Again? How the Trump movement is conquering Europe. The transatlantic « new right » alliance: its goals, victories, key actors, and where they meet and how they’re financed.

DIE ALLIANZ DER NEUEN RECHTEN
(The New Right-Wing Alliance)
by Annett Meiritz & Juliane Schäuble
Heyne/PRH Germany, September 2025

JD Vance defends the racist Germany party AfD in a speech in Munich, a right-wing political newcomer from Poland is welcomed in the Oval Office: right-wing parties and lobbyists are growing their international networks faster than ever before, and working both openly and behind the scenes to export Trumpism to Europe – with potentially drastic consequences. Experts are already warning that we could see right-wing populist, anti-EU parties running the majority of European countries by the end of the 2020s. Here, US correspondents Annett Meiritz and Juliane Schäuble reveal how the transatlantic alliance is coming together, as well as its chief goals and key points of resistance. A shocking, eye-opening insight into a rapidly growing threat.

Annett Meiritz has been the Handelsblatt’s DC correspondent since 2017. She previously spent a decade at Spiegel Online, among others as a parliamentary correspondent based in Berlin. She studied history and is a Burns Fellow and alumna of the non-profit Atlantik-Brücke’s young leaders programme. In 2022, she and Juliane Schäuble co-authored « Guns ‘n’ Rosé », a portrait of conservative women in the US.

Juliane Schäuble has been Washington correspondent for Die Zeit since 2025. Before that, she spent twenty years at the Tagesspiegel – among other things heading up the politics desk; for the last seven of those years, she was based in the US, where she wrote for the Tagesspiegel’s US politics newsletter Washington Weekly. She has an MA in political science, and spent a semester at the American University in Washington. She is a member of the White House Foreign Press Group. In 2022, she and Annett Meiritz co-authored « Guns ‘n’ Rosé », a portrait of conservative women in the US.

ON COURAGE de Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer

A deeply reported manual for how individuals can resist America’s slide away from democracy, based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.

ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR
by Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer
Mariner Books, June 2026
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump’s Age of Fear,” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and former White House senior advisor Ami Fields-Meyer deliver a guide to courage in America’s age of fear. ON COURAGE is a captivating collection of stories and lessons from the front lines of the fight for the future of the free world that invite action and rouse hope.

Step into the room where the world’s new dissidents—ordinary people, in the U.S. and around the world, who never aspired to be activists—are writing the playbook for courage, risk, and resistance in the age of authoritarianism and unprecedented digital surveillance.

ON COURAGE simplifies the calculus of activism by making more accessible than ever the fundamentals of taking political risk. It’s a handbook that is equal parts practical and spiritual, a valuable resource and a powerful message for anyone, anywhere, who feels the walls of history closing in on them.

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of the nonprofit journalism newsrooms The Markup and Proof News, and a New York Times contributing Opinion Writer. She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her work at The Wall Street Journal and ProPublica.

Ami Fields-Meyer is a writer, political strategist, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served in the White House from 2021 to 2024, including as Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris and as a member of the President’s technology policy team. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Emory University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

THE INFORMATION STATE de Jacob Siegel

We’re constantly told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s ruining our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent?

THE INFORMATION STATE:
Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel
Henry Holt, March 2026
(via Javelin)

THE INFORMATION STATE is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet writer Jacob Siegel charts how a technological infrastructure built to make society more rational and progressive has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Instead of competing for voters’ support, the Information State uses censorship, mass surveillance, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality.

An alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. In short, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the Covid pandemic. THE INFORMATION STATE is an urgent, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.

Jacob Siegel is a contributing editor at Tablet. He is a US Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He edited and contributed to Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, the first anthology of fiction by veterans of the global war on terror. Since 2013, he has worked as a journalist and essayist covering war, digital technology, and the convulsions in the American scene.

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER d’Alexander Stubb

At the end of the Cold War, we in the West assumed that our values were destined to become universal. Instead, they are in danger.

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER:
Rebalancing the New World Order
by Alexander Stubb
on submission, Spring 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

The forces that were supposed to bring us together—open trade, technology, information, and global financial markets—can also pull us apart. Economic interdependence does not guarantee peace. Liberal democracy is not a universal desire.

The Global West, until now led by the United States, wants to maintain the old liberal international order. The Global East, led by China, wants to change it. But the balance of power is no longer bi-polar. The ascendence of the Global South – led by a range of states from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – has created a Triangle of Power.

The Global South has the power to tip the new world order toward West or East, democracy or autocracy, free trade or state control, shared rules or none. The next few years will decide the dynamics of the new international order for the rest of the century, or at least for decades to come.

This is the 1918-, 1945- or 1989 moment of our generation. What’s certain is that the world order as we know it will be reborn. The question is what kind of order it will be—and where the values of freedom and democracy will stand within it.

In THE TRIANGLE OF POWER, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb argues that the West can only maintain its central role—and preserve the liberal world order—by adopting an approach he calls “values-based realism” in dealing with other countries and with the key challenges of our time economic, climate, and technology.

Alexander Stubb is the 13th President of the Republic of Finland, inaugurated on 1 March 2024. He has previously served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was the Chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020. Stubb worked as a civil servant from 1995 to 2004 as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi’s team at the European Commission. He was involved in the negotiations of the EU Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon.