About Us

War and economic crisis have returned to Europe. Emerging technologies are transforming our lives and how we understand ourselves. Ageing populations and global migration are shifting demographics. History is back, and yet, despite this tumult, domestic politics appears stuck. There is a sense everywhere that nothing is working as it should, that our leaders are not up to the task, and that permanent stagnation defines our era.
This stagnation is felt in our economy, characterised by low productivity and sluggish growth; in our culture, dominated by renunciation and conformity; and, above all, in our governance and statecraft. Lurching from crisis to crisis, concerned principally with managing the daily media cycle, we have lost both the ability to execute the basic functions of the state and the self-confidence to act for posterity.
Civic Future is necessary because we need better ideas and better people in public life, who hold fast to liberal political ideals, reject declinism in our politics and our culture, and want to find a way out of stagnation.