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Amid all the panic over the EU’s mounting “migrant crisis”, let’s remember that we have been here before: in fact, a near-perpetual emergency has gathered force ever since the EU started closing its common external borders in the 1990s. Since that time, migration has come to be colonised by interior ministries and security forces as […]

Viděli jsme, že ve Spojených státech vzkvétají vedle etablovaných církví i četné kulty a sekty, zatímco v Íránu a jiných oblastech Středního Východu, v severní Africe a na indickém subkontinentu se dynamicky rozvíjí islámský fundamentalismus, jenž úspěšně vzdoruje západním vlivům. Severní Irsko zůstává po staletí ostře rozděleno na protestanty a katolíky, jejichž aktivisté mezi sebou často otevřeně bojují. Papež je na […]

What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Recent events in Paris inevitably prompt these questions. In particular, is the kind of satire that Charlie Hebdo has made its trademark—explicit, sometimes obscene images of religious figures (God the father, Son, and Holy Spirit sodomizing each other; Muhammad with a yellow star in his […]

Politickou stranu lze definovat jako organizaci usilující o získání legitimního podílu na vládě prostřednictvím volebního procesu. Za určitých situací existují politické organizace, které se sice snaží o získání moci, ale je jim odepřena možnost k ní směřovat obvyklými prostředky. Dokud jim toto právo není přiznáno, lze je považovat spíše za politické sekty nebo hnutí. Příkladem mohou být sociální demokraté v […]

Unsurprisingly, the twentieth anniversary of 1989 has added to an already groaning shelf of books on the year that ended the short twentieth century. If we extend “1989” to include the unification of Germany and disunification of the Soviet Union in 1990–1991, we should more accurately say the three years that ended the century. The […]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fellow of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a visiting fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and founder of the AHA Foundation. She is the author of the newly published book “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.” The ferment we see in the […]

It was 20 years after I chose to become a historian that I first saw a photograph of the woman who made my career possible. In the small photograph that my doctoral supervisor, her son, showed me in his Warsaw apartment, Wanda J radiates self-possession, a quality that stood her in good stead during the […]

Dosud jsme tvrdili, že charakterové rysy vyvolané naším socioekonomickým systémem, tj. naším způsobem života, jsou patogenní a nakonec vytvářejí nemocného člověka, a tedy i nemocnou společnost. Ovšem existuje ještě druhý argument, který ze zcela jiného hlediska podporuje hluboké psychologické změny v člověku jako alternativu vůči ekonomické a ekologické katastrofě. Tento argument byl podán ve dvou zprávách […]

In 1932 and 1933 a few starving Ukrainians made their way to Leningrad, where they had family connections. They narrowly escaped joining the seven million Soviet citizens who perished from malnutrition in the early 1930s, as the Soviet leaders brought peasant farms under collective control. Josef Stalin punished Soviet Ukraine particularly harshly for the shortfalls […]

President Obama stands accused of political correctness for his unwillingness to accuse groups such as the Islamic State of “Islamic extremism,” choosing a more generic term, “violent extremism.” His critics say that you cannot fight an enemy you will not name. Even his supporters feel that his approach is too “professorial.” But far from being […]