Ivo Budil: No totalitarianism on the horizon
A totalitarian system of the communist, fascist or Nazi type was a radical, revolutionary and brutal attempt to create a completely new type of utopian society on a class or…
No slippery slopes any more
There was a time when – when introducing various social innovations – we were worried about how far it could go, and when we talked about the slippery slope. “If…
On books and class differences
What social differences are still tolerable? Such that they lead to differences in lifestyles only so great that marriages between children from the poorest families and the richest families are…
Czech president Zeman on Green Deal
I have long held the view that one of the root causes of the current energy crisis is the Green Deal. I would illustrate this with an example. If Germany…
On the common interests of aristocrats
The West is finally admitting that they can’t take sanctions for long. That they are far more damaging to its economy than they are to the Putin regime. Sociologically, it…
Whoever shouts ‘Hitler’ at another is himself like Hitler.
The vast majority of war conflicts cannot be fitted into the “Hitler” template. Most war conflicts in history have eventually been settled by negotiation, and appeasement has led not to…