The Machinery of Local Power
The STAN party emerged as the winner of this weekend’s local elections in the Czech Republic, with its candidates securing victories across the country. I keep encountering expressions of astonishment…
The Missing Alternative
Yesterday’s seminar at the Jungmann National Academy was devoted to Karl Marx. The main session was led by Ivo Budil, but as so often happens, perhaps the most penetrating insight…
Straight but not narrow
With the slogan “straight but not narrow” Greg Johnson does not mean that we should all be a little bit gay. He is describing a situation in which it is…
The Reproductive Revolution
Debates about evolutionary psychology are extraordinarily difficult because two major turning points have occurred within an astonishingly short period of history. Each of these turning points brought about a fundamental…
Nature Before Nurture
One of the myths that makes life in our time so tiresome is the notion that differences in personality traits and abilities between men and women are caused by differences…
Building an Educated Nation
The market is a highly effective tool when people need to be motivated to acquire specific knowledge and skills—for example, to qualify as an electrician or learn Spanish. This assumes,…