German History as a Greek Tragedy

Hitler: Nemesis / Hubris
It took me a couple of months to finish Ian Kershaw’s monumental work on the-worse-political-persona-ever. During that time I got overly excited about this book, which led to elderly neighbors nodding their heads at the crazy masochistic youngsters of today, and to my wife almost divorcing me - after she woke [...]

Towards a new theory of Democracy - general framework

In the first entry I tried to show that many of us have some intuitive [...]

Notes towards a new theory of Democracy - I

A few years ago, a friend of mine was working as a teacher, filling in for a sick colleague on a “citizenship” class. The teenagers in class had very little interest in the subject, as expected in normal schools. The substitute teacher found the class impossible to teach. “We know everything there is to know” [...]