On post-communist happiness

American psychologist Martin Seligman collected statistics on how happy people feel and how satisfied they are with their lives. They show that between 1981 and 2007, people’s subjective situation improved…

America’s best

In East Bohemia, a regular meeting of fans of the Southern Year took place over the weekend. The freest and most rebellious day of the year. Southern flags, American motorcycles,…

On censorship and stupidity

“Non-democratic countries can in a sense set an example in this respect: by severe (self)censorship and limiting the availability of information, they seal the information space so that their doctrine…