Reason versus fanaticism
In my interview with rock and roll star Pavel Cernocki, which is unfortunately only in Czech, I tried to stress that it is now very important to keep your distance…
How powerful is the machine in my head?
You’d hardly find a person who doesn’t think they’re above average intelligence.While we are able to assess other qualities of ourselves quite realistically (physical strength, for example), intelligence is not.…
Who’s acting crazy here?
We have heard a thousand times from commentators, analysts and politicians that Vladimir Putin has gone mad. Is he really acting like a madman? Wouldn’t you rather expect a madman…
Ivan David: To the tale of the evil Tsar – Part II.
Dictator Putin applied the experience of a child of the streets of St. Petersburg: “If a battle is inevitable, one must strike first.” Such a lesson cannot be a justification…
Ivan David: To the tale of the evil Tsar – Part I.
Here we have the popular fairy tale, or as it is nowadays “professionally” called “narrative”, about the bloodthirsty criminal Putin, who out of the blue had the idea to invade…
Jan Keller: Globalisation postponed
The war in Ukraine and the accompanying wave of economic sanctions represent an interruption in the process of globalisation that has been developing intensively over the last thirty years in…