ERA Company, the manufacturer of the renowned passive surveillance radars that can track even the so-called stealth planes, has in the last year turned in the best financial performance of the last twenty years. And there has been no let-up in demand. ERA is not an exception to the rule. The Czech Association of Defense…

The country now enters a kind of a Brezhnev-era stagnation, where the non-development may even be portrayed as the much-wanted “stability”

The biggest economy of the E.U. is still growing, but lags behind in investment. That might not pay off in the future.

The crisis in some EU countries is becoming a chronic problem, showing that European funds have been unable to counter the crisis or remove its effects

Common currency should not be blamed for the misfortunes of some of the euro area member states

Thanks to Hašek, Kafka, Kundera or Havel, among others, the Czechs are considered to be a nation inclined to critical self- doubt and, generally, not to take themselves too seriously. This attractive feature, which usually protects the Czech society from a momentary lapse of reason other nations in the Central Europe occasionally tend to suffer…

International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates and its geopolitical implications

Democracy today is instrumentalized, making it on one hand more manageable and secure, on the other, more suspect and irrelevant

Lessons for Ukraine, Russia, and the West from the divided island of Cyprus

With the revolution of 2014, the postmodernism in Ukraine ended. We still do not know how to conceptualize this new reality.

“[…] we don’t have any reason to think it’s more than military exercises.” So opined a senior U.S. intelligence official on February 27, 2014. Only after Vladimir Putin’s “little green men” without insignia took over the airport and government buildings in Crimea did the light go on. We saw this movie before in 1968 Czechoslovakia.…

Lord Byron was a Luddite. The Romantic poet’s only speech in the House of Lords defended the followers of Ned Ludd, who were smashing the mechanical looms in England during the early 1800s because they feared the machines would put people out of work. Back then, some believed that technology would create unemployment. They were…

An interview with Lev Gudkov by Filip MemchesToday’s Russia is implementing the idea of “happy forgetting” about the past. The point is not to traumatize the young generation with unpleasant episodes of history—says Lev Gudkov in an interview with Filip Memches

In the Sad Song of a Village Jester Viktor Dyk satirizes the propensity towards mediocrity of the young Czech nation at the break of the 20th century: “Neither bad, nor good. Something in between.” Something of that kind could serve as an appropriate assessment of the state of education in the Czech Republic and the…

Only an idiot would work for 6000 złoty.– Elżbieta Bieńkowska, former Minister of Infrastructure and Development of the Republic of Poland, currently European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services

One of the hallmarks of the neutral liberal state is the independence of higher education, just like religion, the judiciary, and the Central Bank. If there is no separation of the state from the universities, they become instruments for state control of social stratification and mobility and an inefficient tool for socially-engineering society and its…

An interview with Marcel Gauchet by Maciej NowickiHumanism was based on the assumption that you need to know things in order to exist as a human being. Today an individual exists regardless of any culture or knowledge acquired—says Marcel Gauchet in an interview with Maciej Nowicki

Both the so-called progressives and the conservative educators regard education instrumentally. That is why they regard the knowledge content of education as far less significant than the teaching of skills.