Malinorn supports and invites heterodox thinkers on religion, freedom and technology, and enables their voices to be heard.
We bring their work to the people who build, fund and govern, to renew the culture of leadership in the West with courage and a living sense of its intellectual tradition.
Research
The first year aims to invite 100 promising thinkers through close reading, nominations and data-assisted discovery. Five paid fellowships will support original writing and research with peers and editors. Essays, Substack publications and commissioned visuals will carry their work into public life.
Gatherings
The programme includes ten roundtables for senior leaders and thinkers, and two conferences, one on each side of the Atlantic.
Context
AI, war and the return of religion are reshaping the West.
Munich
The first Munich season reads Peter Thiel against The Straussian Moment, Augustine's City of God, Schmitt's Nomos of the Earth and Aristotle's Ethics, closing with the Munich Theses. Admirers and sharp critics meet under the Chatham House Rule.
Kerem Demirtas's Theology in Times of Interregnum explores Francis of Assisi, freedom and spiritual renewal amid material transformation. Applied research would bring accounts of human freedom into AI evaluation with technical and theological collaborators.
People
Founder & host
Dr. Thomas Meier
Political philosopher and writer. Doctorate in philosophy of science, LMU Munich; teaches AI ethics.
Research & writing
Vedat Kerem Demirtas
Economist and writer. MSc Economics, LMU Munich; author of Theology in Times of Interregnum.