Democracy’s Vanishing Future: A Conversation

A panel discussion about how a crisis of futurity within contemporary democratic politics — characterized by the erosion of shared assumptions about the collective construction of desirable futures — reconfigures patterns of governance, political leadership, and ideological contestation. With Maja Göpel, Scholar, Speaker, Author, and Advisor; Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and spring 2026 Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow; Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, and Permanent Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM); and Karolina Wigura, Associate Researcher, Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford, Senior Fellow Liberal Democracy, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Associate Professor, University of Warsaw, and Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation; moderated by Daniel Benjamin, President, American Academy in Berlin. 🔔 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://buff.ly/44Sqsks 👉 Sign up for our events: https://buff.ly/qPljkep 📲Follow us on Social Media: Instagram:   / americanacademyinberlin   LinkedIn:   / american-academy-in-berlin