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The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Kevin Dutton, “Mądrość psychopatów”, translated by Monika Wyrwas-Wiśniewska, Muza 2014 [Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012].
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Hašek’s Puzzles
Jaroslav Hašek, Pocztówki z c.k. monarchii i krajów ościennych. Wędrówki po c.k. monarchii (i nie tylko). Selected and translated by Anna Dorota Kamińska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Przybylik, Warszawa 2014.…
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The Voice of The Zeitgeist
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.
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Energy Policy Homework
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Minsk as a Townscape of The Belarusian Power
Cityscape of Minsk embodies the imaginary environment of the Belarusian power as a legitimate successor of the socialist state.
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Putin’s Trick, or What is Ownership a la Russe
The social contract between private owners and the Russian government that existed for the past ten to fifteen years is being revoked before our eyes. What will replace it?
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How to Save Capitalism?
People want to get rich. They can go to great lengths to achieve that. This rule is behind capitalism’s success. Its logical consequence has nearly become the cause of the system’s disaster.
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Post-Communist Mafia State — The Hungarian Case
After the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán openly proclaimed his wish of developing an “illiberal state” in Hungary, there is a theoretical need to define the real nature of this autocratic regime.
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Poland 2015: Liberty, Property, Security
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The Cardinal and The Canary
Some Croats compare Aloysius Stepinac to Cardinals Stefan Wyszyński and József Mindszenty. But neither the Polish nor the Hungarian “Prince of the Church” had an episode of collaboration with a…