Should Ukraine be part of NATO?
The right question in the Czech Republic is whether it is in the interest of the citizens of the Czech Republic that Ukraine should be in NATO. That is to…
Russians are old-fashioned
Women and children are being evacuated from Donetsk, and the reader in the Czech Republic realises how much we in the West have become so rude. A generation ago, it…
The liberal lottery
In the early 1990s, economic reform was underway in the Czech Republic (and before that in Czechoslovakia). In many ways it was similar to that which had taken place a…
Individualism or the extinction of nations
Hikikomori is an extremely pathological form of loneliness, but it affects a limited number of young people. But as research from Japan shows, those with long-term problems are vast in…
Idiots in the censorship office
Censorship has been applied in various times and regimes. But in few regimes have the censors been as terribly stupid and incompetent as today’s “fact checkers”. Maybe it’s because the…
Reasons to envy the Hungarians
While households and businesses in most of Europe will be sacrificed on the altar of the “market” (which in this case does not mean free competition, but the profits of…