Innovation or decay
“Stripping comes to seem like a cool accessory — something with which to burnish your resume and make yourself look more interesting than the average MBA-seeker”, writes Kat Rosenfield at…
Jan Keller: A politics without promises of prosperity
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…
Women, children and the poor
When a ship is sinking, women and children get into the lifeboats first. There’s no discussion about that. It’s a basic moral principle within our civilization. Nor is there any…
Entrepreneurship or profits
Tomáš Březina, nicknamed the “concrete king”, is among the candidates for Czech president. He started his business on a green field, built a concrete group with several thousand employees and…
Sexual harassment? Class harassment
Hypothesis to be tested. All this business about sexual harassment is not a question of the relationship between men and women, but a question of the relationship between social classes.…
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…