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…
Lesson learnt
Lessons from the end of communism in Czechoslovakia and from integration into Atlantic structures: Never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never…
On science and emotions
One of the great things about science as a way of thinking is that scientists can be controlled by anyone who puts in the work. You just need to learn…