Noema Magazine

Noema is a magazine that investigates the significant changes occurring in our world today. We feature essays, reports, interviews, videos, and artwork that cover the interconnected areas of philosophy, geopolitics, economics, and technology. Our distinctive approach encourages us to step beyond traditional boundaries and engage with various disciplines, social groups, and cultural perspectives. From topics like artificial intelligence and climate change to the future of democracy and capitalism, Noema Magazine aims to provide a deeper insight into the critical challenges of the 21st century. The term "noēma" comes from ancient Greek, meaning “thinking” or the “object of thought.” This reflects our goal to thoroughly explore the vital issues shaping our world, offering historical context to foster new ideas that daily media often overlooks. In a time of rapid social transformation, there is an urgent need for innovative concepts and frameworks to understand the future we are entering. Noema is published online and in print by the Berggruen Institute and evolved from a previous publication known as The WorldPost, which initially collaborated with HuffPost and later with The Washington Post. We share insightful, thorough, and adventurous articles from both internal and external contributors. While we are dedicated to using journalism to promote a more sustainable and fair world, we remain neutral and do not advocate for any specific national, economic, or political agenda.

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Molecular Civil War In LA

2 weeks ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. The essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger coined the phrase “molecular civil war” to describe a small-scale eruption in a divided society that is symptomatic of a larger cause and bears the seeds of general strife. This is what we are seeing in California.
The 2025 Berggruen Institute Essay Prize Contest

3 weeks ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. The nature of consciousness has enthralled philosophers for millennia. More recently, modern scientific approaches that seek to illuminate how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective, conscious experience engender as many questions as they do answers.
How Pope Leo XIV Can Address Distributive Justice In The Age Of AI

4 weeks ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued a highly influential encyclical on the promise and perils of the tumultuous Industrial Revolution as it gained steam.
Noema Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary | NOEMA

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. This month, Noema celebrated its fifth anniversary as a critical and award-winning magazine known for its success in discerning and perceptive curation of content illustrated by original works of art. While most media these days are jumping into the meme miasma, Noema is going in the opposite direction.
America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the celebrated historian, commentator and biographer whose many books include “The Ascent of Money,” “Kissinger: The Idealist,” “Civilization: The West and the Rest” and “The Square and the Tower.” A senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, Ferguson recently sat down with Noema Editor-in-Chief Nathan Gardels to discuss the Trump agenda, the conflict with China, polarization in America and his own conversion...
Ukrainians Are Designing The Future Of Post-War Reconstruction

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Joe Mathews

Credits Joe Mathews is a fellow in the Berggruen Institute’s Renovating Democracy program, a syndicated California columnist for Zócalo Public Square and the founder-columnist of the planetary publication, Democracy Local. The most promising ideas today for reconstructing countries after war and disaster are coming from war-damaged Ukrainian municipalities. But will those municipalities ever get to use them?
A Quantum Theory Of History | NOEMA

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. Recently, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek gave a lecture on “a quantum theory of history” at the Berggruen Institute Europe’s Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice. For Žižek, all major ideologies, from Liberalism to Marxism, believe history has a direction that moves inexorably toward their universal realization.
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Glen Weyl |Audrey Tang |Jacob Mchangama

Credits Glen Weyl is Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation, Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaboratory and Plurality Institute and co-author of “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society” and “⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy.” Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and served as its first digital minister (2016-2024).
Pastor Of The Planet

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. A light has gone out in our troubled world. Pope Francis’ humility, compassion and message of universal human dignity stood in contrast to the political tide of arrogance, jingoistic nativism and intolerance sweeping the globe. At a time of ingathering national passions, this pastor of the planet insisted on including the cosmos in the polity.
All For The Price Of Eggs?

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. What pushed the MAGA momentum across the majoritarian threshold at the ballot box was the price of eggs. I don’t mean that literally, of course, but metaphorically.