This week, the world is looking at Warsaw where the world’s ministers of environment gather to argue about best solutions to tackle climate change. The fundamental fight is over which countries are allowed to emit what share of the emissions. As every country insists on their historic rights to pollute the atmosphere, the stable equilibrium is: no action. International climate conferences are uphill fights.
[Wersja polska/Polish version] Dear Readers, Jerzy Stempowski, Polish essayist well-acquainted with European culture, wrote melancholically in his essay “Rubis d`Orient”, published in the mid-1950s that after the horror of two world wars, the Old Continent has become more like its old peripheries. So distant like the Moldovan Bessarabia, where due to many wars, people have […]
[ wersja polska / Polish version ] “When people ask me if you can find anything good to say about Lenin, I say yes, you can, but I see no reason why you would want to” – an interview with Anne Applebaum, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author on her new book, “Iron Curtain: The […]
Dear Readers, [Polish version] “Kultura Liberalna” is proud to present you with the first Anglo-Polish issue of our magazine, devoted to the Polish presidency in the European Union. Although it has already been three weeks from the time government in Warsaw took over this position we still don’t know how the Polish authorities will cope […]
Scott Raab Fear and surprise I did not want to come to Poland in the first place. Why? Fear. Also ignorance, which – among fortunate, comfortable human beings – is fear’s central component. Not complete ignorance, of course. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the bosom of my mother’s family. My maternal grandparents were […]