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  • If Aristotle & Plato Had Talked About Oranges

    Last night I had a thought. In Spanish, there is a famous metaphor about love and oranges. It is said that when you find your person, your partner for life, you find your “media naranja” or half an orange. Your other half if you will. Now, it wasn’t until recently I started having problems with…

  • SIS Guide

    Dear first-year people, at The Karlovian, we understand how intimidating it is to deal with the SIS website. Even after years of using it, it still has secrets for us! So we wrote this guide, compiling all our knowledge and complementing it with screenshots to help you make your first steps in the SIS world…

  • Starship Troopers: The Image of the Republic of the Future or Fascist Society?

    Starship Troopers novel. What a weird choice for an essay on political philosophy, right? According to some prominent thinkers like Hannah Arendt, politics is not just thoughts of the philosophers of higher standing and debates in parliaments. Politics is often created in the discussions in bars among friends. This way, political thought condenses into and…

  • An Incoming PPE Student’s Guide to Prague

    You’ve just arrived in the Czech Republic, an incoming fresh-faced aspiring PPE student, and you feel totally lost in Prague. How does the public transport system work? How do you get student discounts for, well… anything? How do you find your footing and anchor yourself in your PPE community?

  • Völkisch Germanic Nationalism & the Belonging

    When we talk about the creation, development or construction of the nation we have to take into consideration factors which are further away from the logical or concrete matters which build the nowadays legal & political bureaucratic-institutionalized structure that govern the contemporary societies.  There are other factors which bound us as a group. But the…

  • Mexico, a Member of the BRICS+ ?

    An etiolated plan The drums anticipating the entrance of the untold G2(China & Russia) and its economic & political group are rumbling throughout the whole international system and the former global hegemonic power shivers but what does the southern neighbor’s strategy says? The group of the BRICS+ representing a new big package of “reforming” economies…