Rob Riemen

Founder, Nexus Institute

Rob Riemen is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for intellectual reflection to inspire the Western cultural and philosophical debate. Mr. Riemen is also the editor of the essay journal "Nexus."

He is the author of Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal (2008), which has been translated into eighteen languages, and the new international bestseller To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism (2018)

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How do you contribute?

Riemen hopes to raise essential questions about the quality of information, in some small way, restore meaning to language.

Freedom, Truth and Democracy

Rob Riemen emphasizes the roots of democracy as first articulated by the Greeks.

Rob Riemen explains the formative influence of Thomas Mann.

What do you do?

Riemen heads the Nexus Institute, a place to discuss life’s big questions.

The constancy of fragility.

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