To our Christian roots
In the Czech Republic today we celebrate the arrival of Christianity in 867. A few neopagans may be grumbling, but basically they are probably happy too. Our roots and our…
As under Nazi rule
The war for subsistence and domestic production continues. Under a new EU directive, you must register every hen you keep at home. I’m not saying that there are already other…
They don’t know their own ideologies
Disparaging labels are used by every regime. Even democratic regimes do so. But notice how vague the labels used by the current oligarchic regimes in Europe are. No one can…
Ivo Budil: No totalitarianism on the horizon
A totalitarian system of the communist, fascist or Nazi type was a radical, revolutionary and brutal attempt to create a completely new type of utopian society on a class or…
No slippery slopes any more
There was a time when – when introducing various social innovations – we were worried about how far it could go, and when we talked about the slippery slope. “If…
On books and class differences
What social differences are still tolerable? Such that they lead to differences in lifestyles only so great that marriages between children from the poorest families and the richest families are…