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Slovak student magazine based at BISLA (Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts). Providing a voice of students to express their opinions, beliefs and viewpoints.
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Slovak student magazine based at BISLA (Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts). Providing a voice of students to express their opinions, beliefs and viewpoints.
Lucia Kobzová, Réka Hegedűs / December 13, 2021(8 min. read) Barbara Kelemen graduated from BISLA in 2017 and continued her studies at London School of Economics and Peking University, where she earned double masters. Currently, she is working as a re
Petar Tumbov / July 3, 2022 Franz Kafka was born on July 3rd, 1883. He was a German-speaking Jew from Prague who later lived a painful, miserable, and sad life. Franz Kafka possessed the particula
Petar Tumbov / June 5, 2022 ABOUT RT RT (launched as Russia Today, and still known by that name to most people) is a well-known television network and website controlled by the Russian government.
Elvis Mantello / May 12, 2022 Numerous scientific discoveries and advanced technological progress in today’s world were possible thanks to modernity. It is safe to argue that Enlightenment wa
Lucia Kobzová / May 6, 2022 China’s autocratic regime is abusing its technological capacities not only to suppress the freedom of its citizens, but also to launch cyber-attacks on foreign countries. It seems that China will ominously become a leader in th
A slightly unusual little addition to the Il Ponte content for today comes in the form of a run-down for the month of March. We want to give our readers a little overview of what has been going on in the quaint world of BISLA. Since this is the pilot of r
photo credits: Russian T-72B3 tanks in St. Petersburg, Russia | Shutterstock; kafkadesk.org Viktória Križanová/ March 20, 20225 min read The book A Voluntary, by Aaron B. Powell, tells th
Lucia Kobzová / Marec 17, 20225 min read While watching “the race” for vaccine registration, reading about the billions of euros the state has already invested into IT projects, and realizing that reality does not reflect these investments, one does n
photo by Tomáš Čorej Tomáš Čorej / February 26, 20223 min. read Time for diplomatic statements and empty journalistic phrases is gone. Europe is at war and the world we live in is changi
pexels-vlad-fonsark-4993448.jpg Hanna Vasilenka/ February 21, 20229 min. read We live in a society that requires mobility so we can go places and live our lives. Most people drive a car,
If we can’t trust one politician, is a whole nation of them any better?Max Weber / December 7, 2021 (11 min. read)“If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows”. This line, of Fallout New Vegas’ Mr House, is quite the rhetorical statem
Photo by alexkich/iStock Brașă Smith/ December 5 2021 (5 min. read) November 2021 has been turning out to be a difficult month for the United States. On 3 November, New York State Rifle and Pisto
Tomáš Čorej/ November 27 2021/ (7 min. read) The Slovak Prime Minister, Eduard Heger had an interview on the national radio last week. The most interesting moment came when he said, out of nowhere, that his government might consider mandatory vaccinat
Illustration by Kristína Bančáková Tomáš Čorej / October 25 2021 (8 min. read) What is the difference between liberal democracy and a populist-extremist government with a firm hand such as Orban
Markus Formel / May 27 2021(4 min read) We all live in Amerika Europe, Amerika Europe is wunderbar. The song from the German band Ramstein, Amerika, has been an international hit. It had captured the sentiment of many, thinking that ev