Jung & Naiv

Jung & Naiv is a political interview and talk format with a taste for plain questions and complicated answers. It does not treat public office as ceremonial. A prime minister can be asked why he accepted power, whether unelected succession is normal, and what responsibility looks like after someone steps aside. A CDU labor figure can be pushed on whether a working-class wing inside the party actually gets through. The show's curiosity is blunt, but not empty. It follows the answer into policy mechanics, party tensions, institutional habits, and the points where a polished line begins to thin out. Recent episodes range across Rheinland-Pfalz politics, the CDU's CDA, economic policy, taxes, Bitcoin, tariffs, speed limits, public infrastructure, housing, inequality, and the future of capitalism. The conversations can be serious without becoming stiff. They also have a habit of detouring through odd, memorable particulars, like swimming in the Rhine near Ludwigshafen or a security sweep before an interview. That looseness matters. It gives the show enough room for guests to reveal how they think, not just what they came to say. The interview with Irene Khan turns freedom of expression into a concrete discussion of criminalized speech, trusted flaggers, platform moderation, pro-Palestinian protest, and democratic rights. The conversation with Moritz Schularik works through inequality, climate damage, state capacity, public housing, and the limits of market-first politics. The yearly review episodes add another register: staff conversation, audience favorites and failures, predictions, and criticism of the show's own political moments. Economic briefings, including Maurice's last regular briefing, bring a more editorial current-affairs lane. Even there, the voice stays direct and impatient with evasive arguments. Jung & Naiv is best when an obvious question keeps being asked one more time. That persistence is the point. It turns long-form politics into something less polished, more exposed, and often more revealing than a standard broadcast interview.