On helpless rage
The Czech, Polish and Slovenian prime ministers have proposed a new wave of sanctions. This time they are to be absolutely devastating. But if one looks at the proposal in…
Another milestone in the evolution of masculinity?
Another scientific breakthrough with the potential to change society. This time, perhaps for the better. The male contraceptive pill. What makes it so groundbreaking? For thousands and thousands of years,…
Ivo Budil: Notes on war and the western world
No real positive and supportive sense of belonging was ever born from the spread of war propaganda. Hysteria reduces collective rationality and destroys political culture and democracy through negative emotions.…
About scientists and primitive people
“Western states are ruled by a clique of cosmopolitan burgeois thieves who have no loyalty to their own,” the Chinese president was quoted as saying in a lecture at Beijing…
The Princess and the Pea
Czech public radio is in trouble. They invited security expert Martin Koller on the air and he did not repeat the usual platitudes about the madman Putin wanting to destroy…
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…