During my studies at New York University I spent a semester at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In a country which no longer exists. This was during the collapse of the Soviet union, in 1991.
For it is precisely the freedom to choose, the freedom to think for ourselves, that gives us a chance to constitute ourselves as responsible citizens. Democracy is an ongoing exercise in responsibility, in choosing wisely.
We are social creatures. Alone and locked away in solitary confinement is worse than death. All very strange. All our dark feelings of guilt and shame. Moral feelings, we are born with a moral compass. This feeling of
Many action films are banal in their dramaturgy. Others play on expectations and turn the structure inside out, like Memento, where the main character's unique personality drives the storyline. But you can't exit the structure, the expectations from
I can't imagine a more tragic headline. But I'm more than a bit concerned so here are my thoughts about the darker side of the Scandinavian welfare society. Humans can talk about things that hasn't happened and doesn't
Where did it all start. Perhaps with the water striders among the water lilies. How do they walk on water? In the attic in the dusty light through the window among the rolls of thread, the sheets of
I write in English, not my native Swedish. When you live with a language, it is slowly coloured by reality, by experience - the language acquires meaning, significance and emotion. And then you're back where you started. Only
