The history of mankind does not follow a linear trajectory. The leisurely pace of evolution is often disrupted and turned upside down by revolutionary events. We have reached the threshold of a new industrial revolution. Should we be fearful, or should we, rather, welcome this as a great opportunity for our small country?

Book review: The Invention of Russia.From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War. by Arkady Ostrovsky

Book review: The Art of Loving. The Story of Michalina Wisłocka by Maria Sadowska

For those who deal with literature more often than once in a blue moon, Nobel Prizes in Literature are not very exciting. They do not define the directions of literature’s development, and certainly do not identify what is most interesting in the writing of today.

The Liberal Order Is on the Defensive Due to Our Lack of Will

For a few decades we were told that money from the government should be spend cautiously, so that it would not make its beneficiaries lazy. The unconditional basic income (UBI) mocks all these sanctities.

There are political risks attached to further integration of the eurozone within the model of “multi-speed Europe,” but far greater risk would be to allow the eurozone to fail—says Fabian Zuleeg in an interview with Konrad Niklewicz.

We have to fix the Internet. After forty years in existence, it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation, bats in the belfry, and trolls in the basement.

In the opinion of a number of experts and liberal politicians, the rise of nationalistic populism in the United States, as represented by the administration of Donald Trump, may threaten the liberal world order, which has already been under pressure from increasingly autocratic leaders in Russia and Turkey. However, if such warnings are to be…

The financial crisis showed the weakness of America. Undermining the world order in this situation is much easier and successive actors are starting to do that—says Nicolas Maslowski in an interview with Tomasz Maćkowiak.

Britain’s leaving the EU, which will probably take place in two or three years, represents a decisive change in the Union’s balance of power. The EU will become even more synonymous with the eurozone.

In the refugee crisis a new dynamic emerged between Germany and the V4—all members of the Schengen area. If in the euro crisis the EU was divided between north and south, in the refugee crisis it was divided between east and west.

Whoever wants more powers for nation-states and weaker EU institutions, he will get a European Union where instead of the European Commission it will be Germany dictating to the EU what it should do—says the German political scientist Klaus Bachmann in an interview with the Łukasz Grzesiczak.

Once a separate eurozone budget and a eurozone ministry of finance will have been set up, countries outside the eurozone might well find themselves deprived of many of the subsidies which they enjoy now. The Eastern European countries will be well advised to think twice before they take such a step.

The election of Trump represents a “Post-Christian” turn. When we look at the way in which many people and religious leaders form and sustain their communities in recent years, the link between community building and exclusion becomes even clearer.

One rainy October afternoon I sat down with Veronika Pistyur in the state-of-the-art, fun, and colorful headquarters of the Hungarian start-up Prezi. The smiley and boundlessly cheerful blonde runs Bridge Budapest, an NGO aiming to raise public awareness specifically of start-ups, and generally of the idea that being an entrepreneur pays off both in financial…

Over the past few years the attitudes to integration processes in Europe have undergone a dynamic evolution. In examining this dynamic, can any differences be discerned between the older and the younger generation? If so, in what ways might the younger generation differ?

The results of the 2016 general election delivered quite a shock to Slovakia’s democrats. The most chilling of the many surprises was the fact that a far-right People’s Party—Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) made it into the country’s parliament. A party whose relevance had, until then, been solely regional (its leader is the governor of one of…