List of author's articles
The world without phone booths
I miss them already.
Politics vs Pop Culture
Eurovision says quite a lot about how Europeans feel about one another.
Check the locker room at your local gym for economic impacts of the war
Russia’s immoral invasion of Ukraine is pushing many economic forecasts downward.
Zelensky's messages are meant to inspire, not inform
Social media feels like a particularly bad way to understand something as complex as war.
Slovakia is one place where Putin will first look to test western resolve
When I consider what dinner conversations over Christmas carp later this year might look like, I feel sick.
Americans might start to wonder why they bother
Which signatory to the U.S.-Slovak Defense Cooperation Agreement is more likely to need help defending itself?
The Davos crowd might consider meeting online from here on out
With a little luck, even the caviar companies will survive.
Populism is in decline
Positive trends don’t make headlines because the people who talk most publicly about these issues would need to admit their earlier theories were wrong.
I used to be optimistic. The pandemic proved me wrong
We all now have ample evidence that infections anywhere can impact people everywhere.
It's hard to be disappointed. You know you expected this all along
Low expectations excuse the Slovak government’s total lack of preparedness for this latest, completely predictable Covid wave.
Zuckerberg's timing is worse than suspicious
Let's hope it does not take half a century to fix Facebook's mess.
Green energy costs too much. But does it?
It is costly not to do away with fossil fuels.
Smartphones are deadlier than cigarettes
Instagram almost certainly accelerates what is already a global public health crisis.
Anti-vax mobilisation starting to look like a losing strategy
Several countries no longer rely on positive motivation to get vaccinated against Covid.
Who was really impacted by Covid?
Covid has only further exposed the divide between Europe’s north and west and its south and east.
Delta will fine the unvaccinated
Restaurants, shopping malls, even neighborhoods, cities and whole countries would seemingly have similar motivations for action.
The truth about climate change
In the face of a global pandemic over the past 18 months, individual countries largely responded with their own sets of rules.
There are still things within our control
We can spend a few minutes less each day on our phones and a few more brushing our teeth.
Adjustments on local level may make all the difference in coping with climate change
You can’t fix the problem if you don’t know what the problem is.
Surprise! When people work less, they feel better
If only democracies included some institution capable of regulating finance in a way that benefits most people.
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