How we didn’t let Ukraine fall
There was a time when the heads of enemies were displayed impaled on stakes. Adolf Hitler revived that tradition (in a slightly more sophisticated way) when he displayed destroyed Soviet…
Bureaucracy defeated Musk
“Imagine, purely in theory, that you become the owner of a corporation. Like a multinational giant with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of employees and branches all over…
Crippled conservatism
Recently, a pair of excellent articles by Professor Drulák have resonated in the Czech environment, arguing that the most natural ally of the conservatives is popular socialism, which emerges from…
The end of Boris
The inglorious end of Boris Johnson’s political career should be a lesson for all those who shout “we want to leave the EU but we want to keep the single…
Jan Keller: When the elite can’t even make promises
It is part of the basic political alphabet that before elections people should be promised prosperity. Different parties on the political spectrum may (indeed, must) differ in their prescriptions for…
Cursed economic theory
I invited former Czech President Václav Klaus to the launch of my new book. He apologized that he had another program for the same evening. I mention this to show…