Nils Gilman
Deputy Editor

Nils Gilman is the deputy editor of Noema Magazine. He is also the vice president of programs at the Berggruen Institute. He has previously worked as associate chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley and as research director and scenario planning consultant at the Monitor Group and Global Business Network. Gilman has won the Sidney Award (for longform journalism) from The New York Times and an Albie Award (for international politics journalism) from The Washington Post.


He is the author of “Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America” and “Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century” as well as numerous articles on intellectual history and political economy. He holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in history from U.C. Berkeley.


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September 12, 2023
Technology can realize greatly intensified forms of continuous democratic participation, but such applications must be openly developed and publicly owned.
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January 19, 2023
With the right structures in place, we can transform the government from a passive issuer of regulations and transfer payments into an acti...
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February 10, 2022
How tech uses the promise of endless innovation to ward off regulating even its present-day harms.
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June 25, 2021
Even as the academic discipline of history is in crisis, public concern about historical memory has reached a fever pitch.
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March 9, 2021
To overcome the twin crises of legitimacy and effectiveness created by planetary challenges, nation-states must delegate governance responsibilities up to planetary ins...
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June 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how valuable it is for governments to have operational expertise, plan for the long-term and socializ...
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October 17, 2019
Our climate crisis may provide a powerful new set of justifications for the far right's agenda.
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February 26, 2018
Microbes are us. Let's not ignore this crisis any longer.