If you think that the days of total propaganda are over or that politics only changes history textbooks, you are very wrong. Today it is also imposed through natural sciences - the lesson "Air Pollution" in my daughter's textbook "Man and Nature" for 4th grade is a clear example. The definitions of ...
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The free speech of a radio host
The entire progressive elite in our country is deeply moved and outraged by the news that the leadership of the Bulgarian National Radio has decided to take Petar Volgin's show "Deconstruction" off the air. Fierce attacks are pouring in against the authorities, against censorship, and the host of the show himself organized a protest on December 22 in front of the Bulgarian National Radio building. …
More »Climate Wars, Episode Two: Europe's Sacrifice
The Paris climate agreement is a fact. Now that the jubilant cheers over its signing have died down, it's time to take a sober look at what actually happened, who promised what, and what the consequences will be. Global industrial carbon dioxide emissions, from fossil fuel burning and cement production, are dominating …
More »The ideological vacuum in the "right" parties through the prism of judicial reform
The last few days of political (and public) life have been quite intense and tense. As is well known, the National Assembly did not adopt the most important elements of the changes to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, proposed by the now former Minister of Justice Hristo Ivanov and supported by the Reformist Bloc. Instead, they were voted …
More »Government hunger for harmful taxes and foreign money
Something has changed in the last year. No, it's not like we no longer hear about all the wonderful projects being built with the European Union's cohesion money – the political vocabulary is still full of highways, stadiums, halls and ribbons – but recently other words have been joining them. And …
More »The Cannabis Festival in Prague…or where the next Steve Jobs will be born
Anyone who has seen the first Steve Jobs biopic (Pirates Of The Silicone Valley) remembers the scene where he and his garage company debuted at the 1977 San Francisco Computer Show and realized they were on their way to becoming the hit of a nascent...
More »The European welfare state - a hidden accomplice of extremism
Following the terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Kenya in 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry commented that the fight against extremism and violence goes beyond simply identifying and removing specific terrorists from the streets, but depends on providing “economic opportunities to marginalized, at-risk youth.”[1] Cleared from …
More »Shocking inequality
Brian Kaplan* I have just finished the unpublished collection Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of Gary Becker, edited by Tom Church, Chris Miller, and John Taylor. For me, the most striking part of the text is John Korhane’s on inequality: “The most mysterious thing is why left critics focus on the one percent in …
More »Guest Article: Libertarian Common Sense on Refugees
This article will not appeal to many libertarians. The reason is that in it I try to follow general moral principles on a subject for which society as a whole wants temporary immoral measures. Many libertarians, in my opinion, have succumbed to this general attitude in society, and unknowingly abandon, at least …
More »Is the transition over?
Today we mark 26 years since the fall of the communist regime and the start of the so-called transition. What is happening on this day – in short, due to the crumbling socio-economic system in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, the socialist economies can no longer live on artificial respiration and, driven by Gorbachev's perestroika, …
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