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May 2025

The Performance of Feeling
On outrage, shallowness, and the slow erosion of moral seriousness
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Miklós Cseszneky
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The Quiet Return of Many Tongues
On Eurovision, language, and the slow undoing of sameness
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Miklós Cseszneky
The Authentic Man
José Mujica: the flawed dignity of a man who lived as he spoke
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Miklós Cseszneky
The Silence of the Board
What the Taliban's ban on chess reveals about fear, culture, and the enduring power of thought.
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Miklós Cseszneky
When the Lights Go Out
On Fragility, Dependence, and the Invisible Threads That Hold Us Together
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Miklós Cseszneky
Against Noise
On the Moral Cost of Constant Distraction
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Miklós Cseszneky
The Quiet Centralisation of Schools: A Warning Against Misplaced Control
When the academy system was first conceived, it was sold as a modest revolution.
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Miklós Cseszneky
Against Euthanasia: A Stoic Reflection on the Expanding Culture of Exit
There is an old Stoic phrase: The door is always open. It meant that if life became truly impossible to live in accordance with virtue — if one’s…
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Miklós Cseszneky
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