Our weekly English-language bulletin featuring our pick from European print and one of our top articles from our weekly Přítomnost.
How does disinformation overwrite the imagination and beliefs of those who consume it? With this half-serious programmatic manifesto for a deadly serious issue, Romanian journal Scena9 sets out to explore …
On New Year’s Eve, Russian state television aired a programme that represented the height of tastelessness and kitsch; compared to it, the former Engerian “cauldron of entertainment” Ein Kessel Buntes …
The idea that the purpose of culture is reconciliation confronts Ukrainian cultural activists with a dilemma: how to preserve one’s dignity while keeping the attention of western institutions? In front …
The truth must be constantly repeated, because error is also constantly being proclaimed around us, and not only by individuals, but also by multitudes. …
In socialist Czechoslovakia, one of the world’s biggest arms exporters, issues of durability and demise were taken into account. Why, then, do Cold War weapons continue to resurface in deadly …
At the end of the year, newspapers and magazines are full of summaries and reviews of the significant and important things that have happened during the year. At the beginning …
The message of the coming of Jesus Christ into the world at Christmas time is probably the most enduring false message that has survived with us for two millennia. Without …
The first year of Russia’s war of aggression and what comes next Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure are putting the resilience of the Ukrainian people to the test. While attitudes …
Are we experiencing family breakdown? What does the family mean to us and what function does it fulfil, or has it ceased to fulfil, today? The fourth panel of the …
On the causes and remedies for the dramatic rise in inequality in post-pandemic Italy: including the gender pay gap, lack of pre-school provision in the South, and an education system …
Dwutygodnik touches on a contemporary taboo: why hatred and other base emotions are no less valid than cool impartiality; how hating Russia doesn’t help; and why there’s hope in hate …
To what extent is the media responsible for the spread of distrust in the system in late modern democratic societies? Why do we distrust the media and how can we …
The United Nations has put November 25 on the calendar as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. To commemorate this holiday, we bring you an interview …
White supremacist rhetoric can quickly lead to violent acts. At their most extreme, theories about the decline of white dominance, the emasculation of western society, elite betrayal and a calculated …
Understanding the far right’s online powerbase Millions of people are consuming, repeating and disseminating far-right ‘culture war’ material online, but if you do not seek out that content and are …
The audition of selves a branch of astronomy trying to learn “where the past begins”
September’s Czech Republic First! demonstrations combined legitimate concerns about the cost of living with pro-Kremlin propaganda. But the Czech PM’s wholesale dismissal of the protesters as Putin’s stooges could not …
The apparent clothed the conditional dented—demented—sovereign O—false muse of empathy The disease of elections Michael March
To understand why the imitation of western-style liberal democracy failed post-communist Central Europe, one has to consider the agency of the lead partner, the West. Mimicry is a strategy of …