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Markus Somm, a well-known Swiss historian, journalist and entrepreneur shares how working as a journalist helped him realise the cracks of the socialist ideology and how with the Nebelspalter, his young online news portal, he wants to offer an alternative, more conservative and free-market oriented perspective on the world.

In this Fireside Conversation, Frank R. Suess and Markus Somm go on to discuss Swiss history and how the Swiss system became so successful. Markus explains why the Swiss mountaineers were the Taliban of the Middle Ages, how protestant refugees started international trade for Switzerland and how the deeply rotted hatred of nobility made this country an egalitarian republic very early on.

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