Michal Havran
Michal Havran

Michal Havran is a theologian, writer and presenter of the topical debate programme Večera s Havranom.

List of author's articles

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Robert Fico's main topic as PM is Robert Fico

Slovakia is not the prime minister's property and certainly not a commodity for Chinese buyers.

A man clears the grave of his loved ones of autumn leaves during All Saints' Day at the National Cemetery in Martin on Wednesday, 1 November 2023.
President Peter Pellegrini during the inspection of the units of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic at Hviezdoslavovo Square in Bratislava on June 15, 2024.

Will Pellegrini be Prince Svätopluk's successor?

President Pellegrini will strive to gain full majesty.

Illustratory image.
Pellegrini, Fico and Danko (left to right) signing their memorandum of understanding under the painting of Ľudovít Štúr.

Slovakia doesn't need calm. What then?

In democracy, there is no place for normalisation calm.

"Viribus Unitis" artwork by Matúš Maťátko (2019).

A Czech Slovakia: A country destined by history to fail

It's striking to observe that some Czech scholars still possess a selective understanding of Slovak history.

PS leader Michal Šimečka during the September 30 election night.

Slovakia is profoundly and unstoppably changing

Slovak society increasingly feels at home in its natural environment of the cultural West.

Prince Eugene of Savoy overlooking Budapest.

The “commoner’s” Central Europe is hollow

We have inherited the Habsburg’s conservative worldview along with their hot desserts.

We do not need gala events to make a good name for Slovakia

We need to work to be exemplar and excellent, we must become an exemplary country, clearly anchored in values, with clear rules, a community faithful to justice and lawfulness, a paranoia-free society.

In 1944 thousands of people made a heroic gesture. And today?

The Slovak National Uprising was successful morally rather than in military terms. People understood that in a certain moment one can no longer just watch and wait for a satisfactory resolution, that others will do it for us.

How to turn anger into energy that will save us

In four years’ time, if this government makes it through the whole term, people must feel that they live better, not based on rankings, but based on their satisfaction with work and reward.

Umberto Eco, the Italian lover of comics, blasphemist, pamphletist, and author of a postmodern novel that raises its own reader.

Why do Slovaks hate educated people?

Even the scientific community is not clear about why we should have any sociologists and political scientists at all when we are missing turners and braziers.

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