Of animal suffering
After some fights and tug-of-wars, and probably thanks to the fact that elections are coming up, the Czech Minister of Agriculture has left in place the current regulation where halal…
The truth and the lie
Various old proverbs say that the lie always wins over the truth. But it’s more complicated than that. A liar may often deceive an honest person, but people who see…
On the phase lag of political philosophy
Civilization trends work with a delay In what we call the Christian Middle Ages, thought, behaviour and interpersonal relations were primarily determined by the legacy of previous pagan (archaic) times…
The end of one Czech dream
The Škoda car company is in trouble and there is talk of its closure. It is a company that was handed over to a foreign investor for free in the…
Argentinian Havel
When I first read Edmund Burke’s takedown of the French revolutionaries more than twenty years ago, I was beside myself with enthusiasm. I still pull out that book (Burke’s Reflections…
Again on the causes of civilization’s decline
Over the last month I have published several glosses reminding us that the West reached its civilizational peak around 1950-80, that there is incredibly little attention paid to this period,…