Latin America without samba again
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the Czech Republic is not moving towards a model reminiscent of the West Germany of the 1980s (for which we still use the…
Armed country, peaceful country
At yesterday’s lecture in Brno, I discussed – among other things – why there is so little political violence in the Czech Republic. This is a huge difference from most…
About the divided nation
The Czech Republic is experiencing the biggest wave of strikes since the end of communism. People are protesting against a government policy that includes, on the one hand, gigantic payments…
The Three Layers of Oppositional Thinking
How is it possible that overwhelmingly prevalent popular discontent does not translate into sweeping political change? How is it possible that millions of people, dismayed and angered by the actions…
Times of the Gert Wilders
Gert Wilders won the Netherlands by a decisive margin. After Fico’s victory in Slovakia, another bastion of liberal democracy fell. Is this a sign of a total change in the…
The strategy of imbeciles
We hear repeatedly that the war in Ukraine is in a stalemate. I am afraid that this is the same self-delusion as the previous mumbo-jumbo about the Ukrainian offensive crushing…