Syria as a prototype of Europe?
The environment of Muslim countries in North Africa and the Middle East tends to create groups that we might call criminal gangs, but in another era would have been called,…
Bad guys and dark shadows
If someone in your neighborhood sympathizes with the negative character when watching fairy tales, or with the bad guys who destroyed Santa’s presents, they may have something dark inside them.…
On corporations and smartphones
Hardly a day goes by without a new study showing the adverse effect of mobile phones on children’s brains, and all sorts of bans and restrictions are being added. So…
On populism – Part II.
Yesterday we ended with the following questions: In what sense do Liberal Democrats use the word populism? What was the historical meaning of the word populism? So what do liberals…
On populismu – Part I.
From a reader’s letter: “Could you help me (us readers) to clarify the term “populism”, which is nowadays and daily used and, I think, often abused? If a political party…
On real laws
What are supreme courts for? Well, to tell us what laws apply. Naive people think they can read it in constitutions and codes. But they are mistaken. The real law…