The Slovak parliamentary election is due on the 30th of September, 2023. Why should outside observers be concerned with the Slovakian election? We are a small country, in the end. The importance of this election comes from the strategic value ex-PM, Robert Fico, would have in pro-Russian and anti-EU sentiment…

I spent the summer of 2023 in Prague, where I was focusing on some dissertation research. It was a slow process, and I mostly felt quite burnt out from the tumultuous year at grad school. In this post, I will continue in the series I am writing where I detail…

What was it that brought me to political science and philosophy? I am not quite able to answer that question, to be completely honest. My intuitions tell me that this desire came from the books I read, but the desire to read them was above my control. I had natural…

I started my academic journey in philosophy. I learned about the Ancient Greeks and how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others, described the human condition and ideal communities that share in a society. I learned about Enlightenment philosophes and how they justified colonialism and foreign dominionism. I learned about how the…

After taking a break from academia in Oxford, something I outline in this post, titled “My Obsession with C. S. Lewis Brought Me to Oxford,” I go back to the valleys of the Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada. For those of you who might not know — and are curious…

It is no secret that Poland and Slovakia have been adamant allies of Ukraine. State representatives, particularly presidents from both countries, were among the first to visit Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In Hungary’s case, the Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is balancing support for…

After dropping out of university in Portsmouth, I made my way to Oxford, England. What brought me there? Well, I was reading a biography on the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis. He was an obsession of mine in my early youth. So, in this post, I…

Despite my eventual path down academia, as a graduate student at McGill University now, I didn’t really have a good first shot at the field. In fact, I dropped out of my original studies, at eighteen, in Portsmouth, where I was studying Forensic Psychology at Portsmouth University. My future was…

I am happy to announce the release of my third book, Surprised by Uncertainty: A Journey from Christian Fundamentalism. In promotion of this book, I thought I’d release blog posts under the theme of “Stories from My Past,” where I look at how I fell from my Christian faith and…