Prague’s history of the past 70 years: a “system” of competing entropies abolishing any sense of a singularly defined territory, the “consolatory faith” in a progression towards that X which …

The truth about a city can’t be gauged from the lines on a street map. And yet how can the idea of Prague exist, except as a kind of diagram …

What a fascinating thing it is to see Education defeated by ignorance. One would have thought that the whole purpose of sending Czech kids (or any kids) to school was …

Draghi, the European Central Bank president, is trying to sell ‘quantitative easing’ as the cure for Europe’s structural illness. Not many know what the term actually means, because it was …

This villa by the banks of the Botič – currently home to the Prague Gentlemen’s Fly Fishing Club – dates from 1738, and is therefore only slightly younger than the …

In a Republic, the interests of citizens are represented in their legislature by representatives, rather than individually and the United States of America is a Republic. That’s our centuries old …

Between the left bank of the river Vltava and Petřín Hill stand two churches dedicated to St Lawrence (Svatý Vavřinec). The more substantial of the two, on the hill itself, …

Forget it, they’ve all had their teeth pulled by Congress and are now staggering around looking for something soft enough to chew. The names remain among the body politic, but …

The distinctive russet-coloured Vinohradská tržnice (Vinohrady market hall) was constructed on the site of a former machine factory in 1902, one of several new covered marketplaces built at that time …

Flooding the banks (both commercial and investment) with cash by the Federal Reserve had the intended purpose of dodging the 1929 bullet of insolvency due to a lack of available …

Czech social democratic party (ČSSD) promised aids to small enterprises, but instead absolves from taxes big corporations. Meanwhile certain urea producer is escaping their reach. „I am an adult boy, …

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (he died 3rd June 1924) the Franz-Kafka-Society of Prague initiated Monday the 25th of August an exhibition …

A Little Song; Getting Regulated, the Early Years The song begins with how business came to be regulated in the first place. The industrial revolution of the late 1800’s brought …

The Bank of the Legions (Legionářská banka, or Legiobanka) was founded in 1919 in the Siberian city of Irkutsk as a depository for the savings of Czechoslovak soldiers returning from …

My Prejudices Unmasked I am admittedly not a fan. The direction the nation’s business schools have taken since the end of World War Two seems to me to be a …

The Netherland’s relationship with Russia drastically changed after July 17th, 2014, when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in the eastern part of the …

From Thomas Edison to Jack Welch The history of General Electric is akin to a corporate archeological dig. The bones of the human drive to create are all there, moldering …

Vladimir Putin identified himself and his own image as that of Russia. Such often happens with leaders of major countries. One of the biggest American psychologists, Robert J. Lifton, calls …

Descended from a distinguished Austrian family, Count Johann Wenzel (Jan Václav) von Gallas managed an extensive diplomatic portfolio. As well as being Ambassador to London and the Hague during the …