Tagged: Poland

Giving Offense Today

The Polish Ministry of Education has removed a passage from a new school textbook related to sexuality in modern times, due to public criticism of its offensiveness. Here (and I apologize in advance for assaulting your innocence with such smut) is the offending passage: Increasingly sophisticated methods of separating sex from love and fertility lead to the treatment of sex as entertainment and...

Macron Demonstrates What Mediating Between Tyranny and Freedom Really Means

Poland has been Ukraine’s most stalwart ally during that country’s war of self-defense against Vladimir Putin’s empire-building invasion. Poland is the country to which most Ukrainian women and children flee, and where they are accepted and cared for, during the horror of Putin’s wanton destruction. Poland was the Soviet satellite nation that rebelled most effectively against the communist empire at the moment of...

Cognitive Dissonance, Demonstrated

Poland, which has a much clearer picture of what is happening to Ukraine than any other Western nation, since it is happening on their doorstep, and since they know from horrible experience that their turn to face the same fate will be coming soon enough, has done the unthinkable in today’s climate, namely step outside the echo chamber of concerned posturing and actually...