Politics

The educated can also sell their votes Recently, the idea of limiting the right to vote in the democratic process based on a minimum level of education has been developing in the Bulgarian public space. The idea is to interrupt the vicious practice of buying and selling votes before elections, especially with regard to one of the minorities …

Today (18.07) is a significant date in the Bulgarian calendar. On this day, in 1837, the greatest Bulgarian hero and revolutionary was born – Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, better known by the famous nickname Vasil "Levski". Also known as the Apostle of Freedom, Levski is the most important Bulgarian revolutionary. His merits as an organizer of the revolutionary movement …

From Helsinki with… love? The meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki was highly anticipated after the sparks that flew between the US president and the leaders of NATO countries last week. The focus was on what tone Trump would set for Russian-American relations amid his conflicts with his allies in …

Author: Georgi Georgiev And why exactly for this reason should they be deprived of the right to dispose of them? The topic of this post inspired me to read the book by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein: “The State in the Third Millennium” which I recommend to anyone interested in …

The right-winger doesn't like political adventurism No, this isn't one of those articles that will make you believe that a 1,000 leva salary will become €500, and a 1 leva loaf of bread will become €1, because that won't happen. However, something else will happen - the security of the currency board will disappear...

Seriously! The man has all the qualities to be a leader. He has shown it with his years in business, he shows it in his emotionally charged parliamentary life. He also has all the qualities to stay in power or around it for a long time. He knows what you have to do when elections are coming up, and …

The key ideas of libertarianism have been developing for many centuries. The first hints of them can be found in ancient China, Greece, and Israel; they began to develop into something resembling modern libertarian philosophy in the work of thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson...

Author: David Friedman, translation of an excerpt from "The Machinery of Freedom" The concept of property is of fundamental importance to our society and probably to any functional society. On an operational level, it is understandable to any child over the age of three. On an intellectual level, however, almost no one …

By Tyler Cowen for Bloomberg View You might be one of those people who thinks being “analytical” is a good thing. We usually associate “analytical” with people who are intelligent, knowledgeable, and relatively unbiased in their assessments. You might think that politics is a field where you can be …

"Skin in the Game," the new book by famed financier-turned-philosopher Nassim Taleb, is the most important book published in recent years (probably since his last book, "Antifragility," which was published in 2012). Taleb is one of the few thinkers throughout human history whose writings...