01 May, 2026
Noise, apathy, revolt.
Cracks in the social mirror –
and what slips through them.
The civic body,
examined under pressure.
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Apr 06, 2026
Complacency: Our Public Record
Language is not what we lack. What we lack is effort. We have an exceptionally rich language. I say this not as a consoling formula, nor…
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Feb 19, 2026
How Freedom of Speech Is Neutralized in Today’s Bulgaria Without Ever Being Banned
I am writing this as someone who looks at his country from the outside and, with growing alarm, realizes that it is being quietly pushed…
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Feb 19, 2026
Heidegger in Sofia, Without Philosophy
In 1933, shortly after the Nazis came to power, Martin Heidegger – world-renowned philosopher and newly elected rector of the University of…
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Dec 30, 2025
Pippi, Botev, and Us Today: A Note on Political Correctness
Political correctness is no longer the marginal phenomenon it once was — something that could be dismissed with a casual shrug — nor the…
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Dec 12, 2025
The Dangerous Ethics of Victimhood
In recent years I have found myself increasingly confronted with an old yet stubbornly persistent way of thinking: the assumption that the…
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Dec 12, 2025
Samuel Huntington versus the Contemporary World: When the Waves Stop and the Sea Falls Apart
In the early 1990s, when the West genuinely believed that history had found its direction, Samuel Huntington’s theory of the “waves of…
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Dec 12, 2025
When Collective Pathos Collides with Personal Memory
I want to begin with a story I would rather not recall too often. It was 1984. I was twenty-three, a philosophy student in the capital,…
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Jul 01, 2025
The War That Wasn’t: How Israel’s Strike on Iran Became the Most Successful PR Coup of Our Time
In the early summer of 2025, the world watched with bated breath as Israel launched a sudden, high-tech military campaign against Iran. The…
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Jun 29, 2025
Thoughts Born of Powerlessness
Author(s): Kapka Todorova, Zlatko Enev Today I read the following on Facebook — a typical Facebook post, written in typical Bulgarian:…
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Jun 26, 2025
The Deceptiveness of Experience
Let me begin with a phrase so worn-out it almost dissolves on the tongue: We live in strange times. It’s not its repetition that makes it…
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Jun 19, 2025
About the Sowers of Fear
I do not believe in Bulgarian tolerance. I can’t, no matter how hard I try. I listen to the boasts, where for the thousandth time I’m told…
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Jun 15, 2025
Clash of Civilizations – Reality or Media Myth?
Author’s Note (2025) This essay was written in April 2007, at a time when the discourse around global conflict, terrorism, and identity was…
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M. K. posted a comment in The Yellow Eyes of Horror
What bothers me here is how everything feels ...
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Georgi P. posted a comment in The Man Who Defied the Maelstrom
I’m not convinced. The text is intelligent, y...
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What strikes me most is not the defiance, but...
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What makes this essay striking is not its sub...
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One can’t help but smile at the way this text...
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... „напред“ е по същество единствената посок...
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