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Learning from Ukraine: Karl Schlögel’s Peace Prize Speech and Europe’s Moral Wake-Up Call
Historian Karl Schlögel, winner of the 2025 Peace Prize, urges Europe to learn from Ukraine's courage and reject a "peace" built on fear, trade-offs…
Cosmic Dreams, Earthly Ambitions: Reflections on the Space Race Narrative.
As geopolitical tensions rise again, a new space race emerges. But can today's competitors create narratives as inspiring as those that captured…
Hope is Not a Spectator Sport
Real hope has little to do with optimism, nor with passive waiting: the voices of Vaclav Havel and Pope Francis on what hope is and what it demands.
A journey through the language of freedom, from Athens and Rome to today's Ukraine.
There are many words for "freedom", but one stands out and has become even more powerful in recent years: the Ukrainian во́ля, "volia". A journey…
Eastern Europe: history of an idea.
It was shaped by the Enlightenment, not the Cold War. And the mental maps that etched into our collective consciousness are still there.
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