Society
The parade is over…
I have never been a keen enthusiast of love, equality or minority parades and the like. I have always claimed that certain transformations in our minds are supposed to be introduced gradually, not immediately. As it has turned out, it is exactly what has happened. This year’s parade, despite a few objections and protests (which, [...]
The Internet – a New Escape From Freedom?
Perpetually repeated by the media and politicians phrase “we gain safety on the expense of liberty” is just another false package deal which is forced on an ordinary bulk consumer. Whereas the price can be drastically and palpably sensed, the benefit – the mythical public safety – seems to be a bit illusory.
The [...]
Open Patriotism
A great celebration for Polish liberals – Congress of Liberty – pushed me into some musing. The most important and interesting track of the event seemed to be the issue of patriotism, covered during panel discussion entitled “Freedom of choice of patriotism. The Polish and European Identity”. Why do I think so? Although patriotism is [...]
Students as consumers: the commercialisation of higher education in the United States of America
Howard Gardner perceives the university as a cross-eyed beast, which has one eye focused on financial issues and the other on the expectations of the students.
In 1972 the Journal of Higher Education published an article in which the author wrote: “It doesn’t matter what it’s called, who’s doing it or where in the institution – [...]
Mexico’s Failed Drug War
What is going on with Mexico’s drug war? Why are we in our current mess, and what are the possibilities of getting out of it in any reasonable time frame?
We are in this mess today, as opposed to over the last 40 or 50 years, because when the current president, Felipe Calderón, took office over [...]
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Taking lay charakter seriously
The division between state and religion is one of the pillars of the contemporary democracy. The West needed many centuries to secure it by force and make it a norm of modern law-abidance. Religious wars, whose culmination falls in 16th and 17th centuries, made Europe a conflagration site and encouraged a lot of thinkers to [...]
Problems with Polish modernization.
Project: Poland Foundation.
Poland needs more rapid changes. We need changes to catch up with Europe and cooperate with it to create common vision, as an answer to problems of the world. Modernization is a necessary element to build the foundation of steady economic growth for the next decades. It is also indispensable if we [...]
Bioethics – what is the law we need?
Functions and aims of the law
To answer the question posed in this article’s title, in the beginning we need to refer, if only synthetically, to the problems of functions and aims of the law. There is a common agreement that the law has to be based on clear and coherent, and certainly uncontradictory axiomatic assumptions. [...]
Polish politics of values
The breakthrough of the year 1989 did not only facilitate the creation of a democratic state of law and restoration of innate and inalienable individual rights of citizens. It also restored the correct meaning of the term “politics” and the idea of “state”. We can now have reservations as to directions in which Polish politics [...]
Challenges for labor market due to aging societies
In the following years, most countries of the European Union, including Poland, will witness significant changes in the demographic structure of the population. Eurostat demographic predictions indicate that until 2050. The number of people of retirement age (over 65) in EU countries will rise by as much as 70%, while the number of people of [...]
