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Agnieszka Plonka

Polish Libertarian Association

An Institute of Economic Sciences – Europe alum and a member of the Polish Libertarian Association, Agnieszka writes about the links between psychology and political philosophy, as well as Central and Eastern European history. She is a physicist by training and teaches mathematics and physics in a private college.

Blog Posts

The KGB still runs Russia and always has

January 18, 2023
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Censorship

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has appeared democratic on the surface. It gave the pretense of being a docile, capitalist state that would be integrated into the world economy and political system.  But, when we look into its structure of power, we see that the same organization that inflicted terror in the Soviet Union is still calling the shots, and it is not at all ashamed of its legacy. There is a country that jails teenagers for blowing up fictionalized versions of government buildings in video games; the headquarters of a criminal gang that has been ruling

Truth exists – and disagreement helps us reach it

September 23, 2022
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Free Speech

“I think everybody can be right.” said a STEM field doctoral student to me once. This student was at one of the best universities in the world. When I tried to argue that both facts and truth exist, and that her statement defies the definition of right, she proceeded to tell me that we simply thought in different ways. A renowned institution suddenly seemed like a kindergarten. Nowadays, I like to open a philosophy class by asking students if they can say that everybody can be right. They would mostly start by defending those who support such claims, arguing that everybody can be described