Author: Petr Hampl

Morality and war

By the time Ukrainian soldiers arrive at the front, less than a third are left by day two, neither dead nor seriously wounded, the Financial Times reports. The article was…

Of animal suffering

After some fights and tug-of-wars, and probably thanks to the fact that elections are coming up, the Czech Minister of Agriculture has left in place the current regulation where halal…

Argentinian Havel

When I first read Edmund Burke’s takedown of the French revolutionaries more than twenty years ago, I was beside myself with enthusiasm. I still pull out that book (Burke’s Reflections…