Political Critique Archive

We do not know where this road will lead us; we only know that it will be difficult to follow.

Almost one fifth of employees in the Czech Republic lives in poverty, while business managers possess especially high incomes. But everyone comes cheap compared to the rest of the EU.

Art schools can oppose the current educational system with its focus on competitiveness by meticulously cultivating uselessness.

Sean Guillory reviews two books about contemporary Russia: „Putin Country: A Journey Into the Real Russia” by Anne Garrels and „Nothing is True Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia” by Peter Pomerantsev.

Despite it not being immediately obvious, the terrible social conditions of the people living on the streets are interconnected with environmental injustice.

A seemingly local issue of eviction points to a much larger problem in Slovakia.

Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states – are on the rise.

These Chechen women are falling foul of changing attitudes on the EU’s eastern border, but they have made the railway station in Brest an unlikely piece of home in Belarus.

It goes without saying that not using Facebook in the era of Facebook is very different from doing so before Facebook has been created.

The third most-read newspaper in Slovakia seems to suffer from a bad case of ideological bias.