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 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 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 writer, blogger, columnist and translator. He lives in Bratislava, where he is head of the Goethe-Institut Library. He has published several novels,...

is a Bosnian theatre and film director based in Sarajevo. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a playwright, producer,...

is a German writer, former professor of public law and the philosophy of law at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He was a judge of the Constitutional...

is a Polish intellectual and commentator. He is the founder and leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), a group of left-wing Polish intellectuals,...

is a Polish writer and journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He lives in Warsaw and has been visiting professor at...

is a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and public intellectual, one of the most important political voices in Europe. Trained as a philosopher and author of...

is a British economist and entrepreneur educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (PPE) and University College London (PhD, Economics). From 2007 to 2012 he was...

is an Austrian historian, writer and translator. She lives in Vienna and works at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. She gained her PhD at the...

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 a Polish American writer and academic, based in London. She was born in Kraków to a family of Holocaust survivors and emigrated to Canada when she was...

is a Ukrainian writer. She was born in Lutsk in the Volhynia region in 1960 and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Kiev. She made her poetry debut at the...

is a London-based Nigerian German author, poet, performer and speaker who presents internationally, often collaborating with musicians or other artists. She...

is a Czech writer and translator. In 1984 he emigrated to Paris and from 1986 to 1998 served as editor and head of the literature section of the quarterly...

is a celebrated Russian activist, cultural critic, university lecturer and journalist. In the eighties, Troitsky played a significant role in the anti-Soviet...

is the City of Vienna’s human rights commissioner and the director of its newly opened Human Rights Office. Before becoming the city’s human rights...

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 an American, who emigrated from New York to Estonia with her husband and children in 2001. She is senior research fellow in philosophy at the University...

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 Czech literary historian. A graduate in Russian language and literature from Prague’s Charles University, he is now a professor at his alma mater....

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 Ukrainian essayist and translator. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk he is now based in Lviv and works at the Literary Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of...

is an Austrian writer and philosopher based in Vienna. He studied German, philosophy and political science in Vienna and Salzburg. An acclaimed author...

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je ukrajinská investigatívna repotérka Rádia Slobodná Európa, bývalá zástupkyňa šéfredaktora Kyiev Post, ktorá taktiež prispieva do...

is a sociologist and currently Slovakia’s Prime Minister. A teacher at the Comenius University in Bratislava, she was named full professor following...