July 1, 2020

How Polish media coverage shows the American media's incredible bias against conservatives

On Sunday, June 28, 2020, Poles voted for president.  Thirty years ago, Poland was so lightweight politically that such an event would have passed unnoticed.  Today, as Alasdair Lane rightly notes, who becomes president in Poland ...

September 1, 2019

Can Democracy Survive without Nationalism?

In modern English, nationalism has become a dirty word.  It is lumped together with racism, xenophobia, chauvinism, and intolerance.  To accuse someone of harboring nationalistic views is a formula for exclusion.  Few sc...

April 3, 2018

Disenfranchising God

Humanity's disbelief in God has traveled an interesting route.  Until the nineteenth century (we can argue about the date), proclaimed atheism was frowned upon in Western societies, and it remained a rare abnormality in non-Western mono...

March 29, 2017

Setting Poland on Fire

A topic pulsating under the surface of media attention concentrated on Donald Trump is the state of the European Union. American journalists largely avoid the topic because of its complexity. If they break the silence, it is usually to instruct and s...