Prague is not safe either
You may know that there has never been a major jihadist assassination in the Czech Republic. That’s great, but it doesn’t mean that Muslims aren’t waiting for an opportunity. The…
Recipes for Defeat and for Victory
The best recipe for defeat is to accept the game as your opponent plays it and hope to beat him on his field with his weapons. The best recipe for…
On true knowledge
A reader wrote to me about the possibility that some new psychiatric medication is leading to patients committing mass murder. Definitely a hypothesis worth exploring. It would require a statistical…
Enthusiasts and scientists
So they blocked Richard Dawkins’ Facebook account and after a couple of days today and a couple of days ago. It’s not unusual. It’s something that comes standard life in…
General Underestimation
Russia’s best weapon is not General Winter, but General Underestimation, Czech blogger Martin Chmela wrote today. It is the most brilliant analytical observation to be made in the West since…
On increasingly easy governing
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this year’s US presidential election is not talked about. Namely, the ease with which democracy disappeared from the Democratic Party. Readers will know that…