Aristotle
Founder of political science. Demanded the education of citizens into wise voters as a prerequisite for any functioning polis.
An international citizens' initiative
The planet stands at a crossroads.
What do we really know about the people
to whom we entrust our future?
Since 1980, the world has been governed by politicians who were never trained for their task. BEST‑POLITIC.ORG asks seven simple questions — and provides the answers that schools, media and academia fail to deliver.
Why now
Hyper-complex politics in the hands of laypeople.
No one would board an aircraft flown by an untrained pilot. No one would let an amateur perform surgery. Yet in politics — the most hyper-complex discipline — laypeople have always called the shots.
We see the consequences daily: climate crisis, looming nuclear war, ozone loss, widening inequality, and a politics that fights symptoms instead of understanding causes. The problem is not the worker, not the farmer — the problem is pseudo-intellectuals who never learned what responsibility on a global scale means.
"99.9999% of supposedly highly-educated Western citizens refuse to acknowledge these serious facts." — Dr. J. B. Koeppl
The seven questions
Seven questions every thinking person should answer.
In a few hours — through the most compelling quiz questions — at perhaps the most important school in the world.
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What is coming for our planet by 2100?
Climate tipping points, resource wars, demographic shifts — the data exists. Who is reading it?
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What might our personal future look like?
Politics is never abstract. Every global decision reaches us at the breakfast table, at work, at home.
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Are today's politicians intellectually capable of preserving our planet?
Asked honestly. Without diplomatic phrases. With a look at verifiable track records.
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What exactly do these politicians lack?
Education, humility, historical knowledge, economic insight, scientific literacy — the list is concrete and measurable.
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How can ordinary citizens — without major time or money — substantially help improve the world?
There are seven precise levers. They cost neither money nor years. Only attention.
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What are the decisive, very personal steps?
From how you vote to the conversation at dinner. Concrete. Applicable. Today.
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Will we, too, personally benefit from far better knowledge?
Yes. Better politics is not altruism — it is the insurance policy for your own future.
The answers — at perhaps the most important school in the world:
POLITIC‑UNI.COMOur role models
Politics with measure, courage, and reason.
Four figures who show what statesmanship can be — across two and a half thousand years.
Plato
"The Republic" — the first systematic blueprint of a state in which the knowing govern, and power without education is recognised as catastrophe.
John F. Kennedy
"Ask not what your country can do for you." Perhaps the last Western statesman who understood political responsibility as an intellectual discipline.
Helmut Schmidt
German Chancellor, economist. Said clearly in 2009 on German national television what is hardly said today — about the duty to qualify professionally for political office.
Behind the initiative
Dr. rer. pol. J. B. Koeppl.
Political scientist. Earned his doctorate in 1979 at LMU Munich with a dissertation on NATO policy and armaments management. Gifted-student fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. From 1974 to 1994, advisor to the German Federal Government on NATO armaments policy and global climate policy.
Author of NATO-Rüstungsmanagement and Das Wichtigste Geheimnis der Menschheit; under the pen name Robert Kendel, author of the novel Antaris. Published in Newsweek ("My Turn," April 21, 1980), Financial Times, Die Welt, SPIEGEL, and on German national television.
- 1976–1979: Gifted-student fellow, Konrad Adenauer Foundation
- 1979: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.), LMU Munich
- 1974–1994: Advisor to the German Federal Government on NATO and climate policy
- 1982: Address to the Mont Pelerin Society, Berlin (Hotel Intercontinental)
- since 1985: Participant in three World Climate Conferences
- since 1997: Curriculum development for POLITIC‑UNI.COM
- 2026: Launch of BEST‑POLITIC.ORG
The complete work
Three platforms, one mission.
The political analysis
BEST‑GOVERNMENT.ORG
The unvarnished assessment: who really governs us — and with what consequences?
ReadThe pyramid of knowledge
BEST‑WORLD.ORG
From sub-knowledge to top-knowledge. What separates statesmanship from the mere exercise of power?
ReadThe school
POLITIC‑UNI.COM
Hundreds of quiz questions. Self-test. Citizen training. The most convenient university in the world.
StudyGet involved
This initiative does not carry itself.
Mrs. Christina Hangauer (Geneva) and Mr. Bastron have been carrying the bulk of the costs for years. For BEST‑POLITIC.ORG, BEST‑WORLD.ORG and POLITIC‑UNI.COM to keep growing, we are looking for supporters.
- Read the seven questions. Pass them on — to exactly three people.
- Send us your answer. The strongest replies will be published.
- Support the donation account. Details on request via email.