Today candidates must keep silence: it’s too late to campaign and too early to vote. The first pause within the 2-year-long campaign allows me talking of myself instead of them. Actually, I really know what is going on in the head of only...

In one of the Dovlatov’s books there is a sentence which he heard at a boxer’s match: “a black boxer can always be recognized with a blue hem on his boxers”. That quotation was turning on my mind during all the time of the presidential...

In 1991 he held himself upright, walked steadily and spoke loudly, as he did not hear anything. Showing me his vast estate, taking a pretty part of the expensive Connecticut, he led me through the garden and wood to a hill with a...

Economics is no exact science. This is clear at least with the fact that economists contradict grossly one another. Such a thing can never happen to arithmetic. While in the academic world what matters is ciphers and proofs adduced, in the...

American psychologists set an “inhuman” experiment with a group of unsuspecting consumers. Gathering 32 persons in a lab, the scholars suggested that the volunteers taste a new strawberry yogurt and share their impressions with them. “For...