Immigration and Europe’s Limitations

People are drowning in the Mediterranean. I’m not sure if anyone has calculated the percentage of Arabs and Africans that have drowned in trying to get to Europe. Even though …

Datum publikace:
12. 6. 2015
Autor článku:
Dan Drápal

Today’s and tomorrow’s Czech political scene

When the Czech Republic began its transition to a democratic government with a capitalist economy in 1989, many Czechs were idealistic about the future of the nation. Initially, former dissents …

Datum publikace:
8. 6. 2015
Autor článku:
Megan Donnelly

The Czech republic’s Contentious Road to Energy

A long-term energy plan has been elusive for some time in the Czech Republic. After stalling at the end of 2014, lawmakers are finally seeking to strike a compromise by …

Datum publikace:
3. 6. 2015
Autor článku:
Bailey Evans

We are falling…

This is the second part of Karel Hvíždala’s discussion with the Czech-American political scientist Michael Kraus. “Václav Klaus and Miloš Zeman are not safeguarding Czech national interests. Rather they are …

Datum publikace:
15. 5. 2015
Autor článku:
Karel Hvíždala

Veltrusy Chateau

Situated on the banks of the river Vltava about twenty miles north of Prague, the chateau of Veltrusy was commissioned in 1704 for the counts of Chotek. Work began around …

Datum publikace:
10. 5. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Sokol building, Vinohrady

Thirty years before the foundation of the modern Olympic movement, the German-born art historian Miroslav Tyrš revived the ancient ideal of physical and spiritual improvement in the Czech lands. His …

Datum publikace:
27. 4. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Větrná ulička

Houses with exposed timber frames (fachwerk) are a rare sight in the Czech Republic, but in towns where German influence was historically strong, there remain some good examples. In Liberec, …

Datum publikace:
12. 4. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

The Second Manifesto of Poetism

In lieu of the old categories of art, corresponding to the higher aesthetic senses (sight and hearing), to man’s intellectual and practical needs which are today better served by other …

Datum publikace:
5. 4. 2015
Autor článku:
Karel Teige

Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace

Between 1736 and 1737 the original renaissance palace by Giovanni Battista Alliprandi was rebuilt in the high baroque style for Prince Paul Henry of Mansfeld, probably by the architect Franz …

Datum publikace:
8. 3. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Bethlehem Chapel in Žižkov

Six hundred years ago, in 1414, the practice of administering communion ‘in both kinds’ (i.e. with consecrated bread and wine for all participants, not just the clergy) was restored in …

Datum publikace:
22. 2. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Church of St Procopius

Josef Mocker and František Mikš were at the forefront of the Gothic revival in the Czech lands. The former was the architect of the Church of Saint Ludmila in Vinohrady …

Datum publikace:
8. 2. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Havlíčkovo náměstí

Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821 to 1856) was a free-thinking writer and journalist whose liberal views were strongly influential in the debate regarding Czech independence in the mid-nineteenth century. A critic …

Datum publikace:
26. 1. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Faut-il brûler Kafka?

Typically of this most untypical writer, George Bataille’s Louis XXX collects two textually and visually hybrid texts, one of which was published under the pseudonym of “Louis XXX,” and the …

Datum publikace:
11. 1. 2015
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace

Between 1736 and 1737 Giovanni Battista Alliprandi’s renaissance palace was rebuilt in the high baroque style for Prince Paul Henry of Mansfeld, probably by the architect Franz Ignaz Prée. Despite …

Datum publikace:
4. 1. 2015
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Canicule

The legend of Wolf’s father began during a plane hijacking, in the Autumn of 1977. The botched execution appeared live on network news. Shot in the neck and left on …

Datum publikace:
28. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Louis Armand

Chodov Fortress

Deep in the southern suburbs of Prague – an area now dominated by highways and housing estates – this thirteenth-century gothic fortress is an unexpected witness to a much older …

Datum publikace:
21. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Franz Kafkaʼs Prague, 3rd stop

The series Franz Kafkaʼs Prague corresponds to the conception of a specialized guiding tour through Prague City. In the following weeks we will present certain buildings or monuments, explain their …

Datum publikace:
14. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Filip Charvát

Orloj: Astronomical Clock

The exact authorship of the mediaeval clock (‘orloj’) in Prague’s Old Town Square is confused, but it seems to have been the result of a collaboration between Mikuláš of Kadaň …

Datum publikace:
7. 12. 2014
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Franz Kafkaʼs Prague

The planned series Franz Kafkaʼs Prague corresponds to the conception of a specialized guiding tour through Prague City. In the following weeks we will present certain buildings or monuments, explain …

Datum publikace:
30. 11. 2014
Autor článku:
Filip Charvát