A long-time collaborator of Václav Klaus, former castle chancellor and current executive director of the Václav Klaus Institute, publishes a set of his core texts written and published during the year since the publication of his last book, State on Your Own (IVK, 2022).
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The course of events around us at home and in the world is accelerating, for the worse. As soon as covid receded - at least in our country - into the background, no less fundamental crises began. Just like previous inhumane ideologies, today's progressivism also arouses natural resistance. The world has once again become an open ideological battlefield, people are starting to fight back, stop believing manipulations and progressive intimidation and dumbing down. From the US to Eastern Europe, we are witnessing an intensifying political clash between the conservative advocates of a free society and the progressives still in power. Their attack on the prosperity and standard of living of broad classes opens people's eyes and activates many citizens who have been politically passive until now. Nevertheless, the visible superiority is still on the side of those who have patiently walked through the institutions for many years, until today they control them with full power. It is therefore very difficult to be an optimist today.