is a Dutch writer, journalist, teacher and moderator based in Amsterdam. He grew up in Baghdad and Jakarta. After settling in Amsterdam, he founded the...

is a Bulgarian political scientist, based in Sofia where he chairs the Centre for Liberal Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian edition of...

is an American historian, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly...

is an American historian. He is a Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, a Committee on Conscience member at the US Holocaust Memorial...

is a writer and journalist based in Bratislava. Before 1989 he could publish only in samizdat; later he co-founded the Archa Publishing House, and edited the...

is a theologian and writer. He lives in Bratislava. He studied Protestant theology in Strasbourg and political theology at the École pratique des hautes...

is a Croatian writer and journalist. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University of Zagreb. From 1982 to 1992 she was a staff...

is a Czech politician, honorary chairman of the political party TOP 09 and a member of the Czech Parliament. A descendant of the ancient aristocratic house...

is a German journalist with Franco-German roots based in Berlin. After studying music theory, he worked as staff writer for the German daily taz and later as...

is the most widely admired Polish author of her generation. A psychologist by training, she writes novels and essays and has the rare distinction of being...

is a French philosopher based in Paris. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels, made by Roman Polanski into a...

is a Russian writer based in Moscow. He was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers as an organizer of the samizdat literary magazine Metropol and banned...

is a philosopher based in Bratislava. A Slovak Technical University chemistry graduate, he switched to philosophy after 1989, and has taught at various...

is a Lithuanian philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas and political commentator, known as a staunch defender of human rights and civil...

is a sociologist, writer and translator based in Bratislava. He began his career in the 1960s as a journalist and after becoming a persona non grata...

is an Irish politician based in Dublin. She has been involved in politics since her time as a law student at Trinity College Dublin, serving in Dublin City...

is a Slovene cultural critic, poet, editor, translator and essayist, based in Ljubljana. He is a professor at the Cultural Studies Department of the...

is a Czech film historian. After graduating from the Masaryk University in Brno in film theory and history and audiovisual arts, he wrote for various...

is regarded as the one of the greatest contemporary Hungarian writers. He lives in Budapest, where studied mathematics and started publishing in literary...

was born in Podgorica and grew up in Montenegro, Germany and the US. He studied media psychology and semiotics at Vienna University and since 2008 has worked...

is a literary scholar and politician. He teaches Central European literature at Charles University in Prague, is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal...

is an influential Polish journalist and columnist for the weekly Polityka and the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He chairs the department of journalism at the...

is an educator and activist living in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of the University of Michigan with degrees in Physics and Linguistics Justin has taught...