Sunday 2 August 2026 For much of the period following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poland stood as one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies. Millions of Ukrainian refugees crossed the Polish border and were received with remarkable generosity. Ordinary Polish families opened their homes, municipalities mobilised emergency assistance and civil society demonstrated a level of compassion that will remain one of Europe’s finest responses to the greatest ref

Sunday 2 August 2026 There are occupations that seize land, and there are occupations that seek to seize souls. The first is visible on maps. The second is written in school registers, civil records, marriage certificates and passports. It is measured not in kilometres but in identities. The Russian occupation of large areas of Ukraine has become an exercise in precisely this second form of conquest—a systematic effort not merely to administer territory but to erase the disti

Saturday 1 August 2026 There are places where civilisation appears to have reached its logical conclusion. Libraries. Universities. Concert halls. And then there is Faine Misto, somewhere in the fields outside Lviv, where several thousand people gather under an unforgiving August sun to prove that humanity, despite everything, remains gloriously irrational. By noon the temperature had climbed beyond thirty-five degrees. The dust rose from the ground in shimmering waves that m

By Matthew Parish and Christian Beck Von Matthew Parish und Christian Beck Saturday 1 August 2026 Samstag, 1. August 2026 There has long been a temptation among philosophers, psychologists and jurists to reduce the complexity of human character to a comprehensible framework. From Aristotle’s account of the virtues, through Kant’s categorical imperative, to contemporary psychological inventories of personality, generations of thinkers have sought methods of distinguishing not

Saturday 1 August 2026 Russian political commentator and blogger Ilya Remeslo remains in pre-trial detention after Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ordered that he be held until 16 September 2026 on charges brought under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code, according to materials received by the Lviv Herald from a correspondent claiming to possess documentation relating to the proceedings. The documents include copies of correspondence, screenshots apparently circulate

Friday 31 July 2026 If Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason asks what we can know, its successor, the Critique of Practical Reason, asks a still more demanding question: what ought we to do? It is one thing to possess intelligence. It is quite another to possess a moral will. As artificial intelligence becomes ever more capable of performing tasks once thought to require human judgment, this distinction is assuming profound practical significance. Machines increasingly dia