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The L.A.-based billionaire celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who received the Berggruen Prize, at a New York event that drew A-listers including Karlie Kloss, Wendi Murdoch, and David Rockefeller. We are experiencing an almost unprecedented challenge to democracy in this country at the moment. And that comes from thinkers, from philosophers. And exactly now that we are in a crisis, democracy — not just here, I would say every democracy all around the world — you need thinking that is long-term, very deep, outside of the box, and probably not from political thinkers. We are at a moment where the world is asking, "Where are we going? And what I think is needed is that the people who shape culture, which includes philosophers, need to come up with a way to communicate to people about a shared future. The idea of a shared future needs to be developed. And the challenge is not only how do you bring people into a future — into a horizon that may be shared and then how do you communicate to them? The most important part of our work is helping develop the ideas and helping develop the questions. Only new ideas may take a while.