Welfare state and economic success
Regarding recent comment on the welfare state, I would like to point out that the system of care for workers was not an act of charity, but was based on…
The Revelators of True Knowledge
I recently argued here that we create history according to our intentions for the future, and that in this sense it is impossible to claim that one version is better…
Family and welfare state
In the 1960s and 1970s, when the “war on poverty” was declared in the US and the welfare state was massively expanded, officials saw traditional institutions such as the family…
On past and future
In the Czech Republic, it is a day for celebrating victory and remembering those who died, but it is also a day for arguing about our past and what it…
Why isn’t everyone childless?
Concerns about falling birth rates are growing and are likely to continue to grow. There is no need to panic, but there is a problem that needs to be addressed.…
Medicines, corporations, logic
One limitation of superficial fast thinking is that it cannot consider different influences at the same time. Either the influence under discussion determines something completely, or it plays no role…