Politics

The totalitarian temptation before an ungovernable world: "We need an enlightened despot to survive the 21st century"

The rise of autocracies and the political erosion of the West are driving tyrannical formulas to deal with the climate crisis and the AI ​​revolution.

"It is always tempting to dream of enlightened despotism, but the problem is that very few dictators turn out to be enlightened," says Yascha Mounk