Politics

Libertarianism with Preferences This article is part two of the series "Who's More Left-Winged: A Critique of Conservatives and Libertarians." You can read the first part here. Libertarians' beliefs, on the other hand, rest not so much on the idea of a watchdog state as on an impartial state - one that will protect the rich and the poor...

The direction of his argument may be wrong, but not his substance. Italy has really been infuriating Europe lately. The populist government, led by the outside-the-box Five Star Party of comedian-turned-politician Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini’s Northern League, has announced it will publish a 2019 budget with a deficit …

Each group should try to be a little like the other. One of the favorite pastimes of people on the right (apart from making 2.96-style jokes and saying "Who's not like that?" on national airwaves) is to measure their rightness in intellectual sparring, which often ends with blocking on Facebook, and in ...

The Sofia neighborhood of Mladost has become a center of what American political scientists call grassroots activism. Starting with the election of the controversial and currently indicted Desislava Ivancheva as district mayor in October 2016 – through the support of local committees and gravitating activists of small urban parties in opposition to …

As a continuation of the topic of the Libertarian approach to immigration, we publish a look at one of the most interesting citizenship systems operating in our time. The Swiss model covers a significant part of the proposed reforms in the aforementioned article, with which we opened the topic in the EKIP. 1. Switzerland has two processes for obtaining citizenship. …

The right to free association should only apply to companies that have not received government benefits, otherwise it is favoritism Last Friday, Paypal closed the account of controversial American TV presenter and “far-right” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of Infowars. In this way, the technology giant joins Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Apple and many others, …

The spread of communism cannot be protected by the right to free expression. Recently, questions have been increasingly raised on domestic social networks as to whether the “innocent” victims of the totalitarian right-wing regimes in Bulgaria and around the world, who used repressive methods to save their countries from the USSR-funded …

There is no physical law that says free trade necessarily comes with unlimited immigration. “We will not let Britain pick the raisins from the EU cake as it pleases during the Brexit negotiations. Britain cannot enjoy the benefits of membership without bearing some of its costs.” The German …

You may or may not have heard, but the European Union is trying for the second time this year to pass a regulation that fundamentally threatens freedom on the Internet. It is the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which updates the current legislation of the union in the field of …

For a long time, including in Bulgaria, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of social networks on our society. This modern Gutenberg revolution is fundamentally changing every aspect of our existence, opening up new horizons and creating new problems. Cases such as the sudden and coordinated deletion of Infowars (a media outlet with millions of users) from almost …