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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Prague Café: a brief incursion into Czech presidential discourseWhat is the 'Prague Café', and why has it become the Czech President's insult of choice for his opponents?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Impressions from a Czech refugee detention centre"Leave everything valuable in your car or in a locker. They will try to steal it all," says the woman in charge of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fighting the wrong battle: Central Europe’s crisis is one of liberal democracy, not migrationThe hostile response of central and eastern European heads of states to the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is counter-propaganda the only antidote to propaganda?Russia Today is packed full of lies. But aren't there motes aplenty in our own eyes onto the world? Is media...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We are not anti-Greeks”: the need for a return of solidarity to eastern Europe“Greece hasn’t even dreamt about what Slovakia had to go through, what does it mean to carry out real reforms and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Islam, Israel and the Czech RepublicWhy is anti-Islam activism on the rise in the Czech Republic - a country with virtually no Muslims?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration crisis: central Europe’s dangerous gameShould a serious migration crisis erupt as a result of conflict escalation in Ukraine, the odds are that the V4...
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Published in: HomePhilosophy as a model of active and responsible lifeThe task of philosophy then becomes an opportunity to dialogue. We have to risk being in search of what joins us in...
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Published in: HomePolitical dissidence as care for the soul: reflections on Jan PatočkaIn the experience and activity of political dissidence, care for the soul realized itself through denying the...
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Published in: HomeCharter 77 and the “solidarity of the shaken”The individual should learn to expose himself to the risk of giving up his egoistic prerogatives, in order to build...
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Published in: HomeHeretical Europe: Jan Patočka as symbol of dissident contingencyPost-Europe, for Patočka, must be acutely aware of its own contingency even when it proclaims (above all when it...
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Published in: HomeThe crisis of means without ends: two forms of rationality in the foundations of EuropePatočka calls for a renewed effort in Europe today to reestablish some kind of equilibrium between “the rationality...
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Published in: HomeIntroducing three old ideas for a new Europe: flourishing, solidarity and care for the soulThese ideas--care for the soul, flourishing, solidarity--are ideas that according to Jan Patočka could be useful for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Life after Europe: the Post-Europe ProjectThe joint editors of Europe – the very idea introduce the next stage of their project – a discussion inspired by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?State surveillance in the Czech RepublicThe Czech state doesn't have the capacities to develop a mass scale internet surveillance programme – but resorts to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Notes from the Prague underground, part 2Part 2 of an interview around Roger Scruton's new novel, Underground Notes. The contrast between Prague in the early...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Notes from the Prague underground, part 1
Part 1 of an interview around Roger Scruton's new novel, Underground Notes. Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s is the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A reflection on Czech Euroscepticism before the EU electionsEuroscepticism seems to be a constant in the Czech political landscape. How will this reluctance toward the EU...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain’s Gypsy moral paranoia
If only the politicians and journalists would try to understand a bit more not only the lives of Roma migrants, but...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who holds power after the Czech elections?The ANO party of billionaire Andrej Babis came a close second in last month's Czech elections. Is the political life...
