On European nation
Why is there no common European nation? There are certainly more reasons, but one of them is that no one has tried to create one. There would have been a…
On the complicated relationship with the West
Today is a public holiday in the Czech Republic – the burning of the church reformer Jan Hus. The event kicked off a period when several crusades were launched against…
On the study of history
Today is a public holiday in the Czech Republic – the anniversary of the arrival of missionaries from Byzantium who brought Christianity to the Moravian state, which preceded the Czech…
Joyfully and repressively
One opens the regular Czech mainstream press, reads about what the police are doing, and the suppression of political opposition is listed first. I don’t know how much energy the…
When feminist support sexual violence
In my interview with philosopher Antonín Dolák, I also discussed the relationship between feminism and Islam. If today I were to ostentatiously convert to Islam, go to a gender studies…
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…