Slovak student magazine based at BISLA (Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts). Providing a voice of students to express their opinions, beliefs and viewpoints.
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
Singaporean public servant Kishore Mahbubani Markus Formel / March 3, 20215 min. read Kishore Mahbubani is a Singaporian intellectual, writer, civil servant and diplomat. He has wri
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
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
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
Markus Formel/ February 6 2021( 6 min. read) A year ago the European project was heading for the first place in the echelons of the world of politics. The United Chaos of Donald Trump and the never-ending Brexit talks with the United Kingdom resu
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.
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
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
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
Director Daniel Blaho Daniel Blaho and Max Weber, transcribed by Anna Vasilenka / February 23, 2021(15 min. read) This is an interview with the principal of the QSI International Sch
Paula Svatoňová, Réka Hegedűs, Lucia Kobzová / February 17, 2021(11 min. read) Paula graduated in 2019. She is currently studying Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at Sciences Po in Paris. Even now, she is willing to take part in BISLA activit
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