{"id":154764,"date":"2025-11-27T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/154764\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:12:21","slug":"im-not-sure-democracy-will-survive-israeli-2025-nobel-laureate-fears-for-the-wests-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/154764\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m Not Sure Democracy Will Survive&#8217;: Israeli 2025 Nobel Laureate Fears for the West&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">Late Friday morning: the weekend is about to begin. Prof. Joel Mokyr (79) arrives, as usual, at his office in Evanston, Illinois, on the third floor of Northwestern University&#8217;s huge new Kellog School of Management building. Three weeks earlier, Mokyr was announced as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics \u2013 he claims this came as a great surprise. He had never imagined he would be the next Nobel Prize winner. His office door is still covered with balloons, paper ribbons and, mainly, dozens of notes from students and colleagues sharing in his joy at winning the world&#8217;s most prestigious academic prize. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late Friday morning: the weekend is about to begin. Prof. Joel Mokyr (79) arrives, as usual, at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8686,1657,54,42,12109,43,1896,40,38,41,39,17652],"class_list":["post-154764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arab-israeli-conflict","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-israel-business-news","tag-news","tag-science-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}