Fighting the phrase “Polish death camps” with education, not censorship
Poland wants to stamp out the misleading and offensive phrase ‘Polish death camps’ – but the proposal to outlaw it threatens academic freedom.
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Columns
Columns
Bull on the Page: Keep Calm. And Don’t Take the PiS.
Today will see the newly victorious conservative PiS government take office. Now what? Our correspondent surveys the political landscape.
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All Brutal on the Eastern Front: A belated view of ‘Generation War’
‘Generation War’ is a seriously flawed work, albeit an attempt, of sorts, to get to grips with the experience of so-called “ordinary” Germans.
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Dear Luiza: Jekyll and Hyde
I’m from Spain and really love living as an exchange student in Krakow. I’ve met some really cute guys too, but often they confuse me.
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Ali’s Angle: Poland’s sex education is failing its children
Half of all rape cases tried in Poland in 2014 were committed by minors, some as young as 13 years old.
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Postcard from Nowa Huta
You can find a lot of architectural pearls here. Nowa Huta is one of them.
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Real Lives: A Nun’s Story
But what do nuns actually do all day? I confess, before this interview I was woefully ignorant.
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Furious Fred: Civic Awareness
You’re probably used to seeing brown water around Krakow’s tram tracks when it rains. Maybe you’ve asked yourself why that
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Tales From The Chalkface: Gifted – That’s Me!
A big sigh of relief – the holidays are here. I’m doing a jolly dance around a pile of presents
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Kino Mania: Vabank 1981
Polish cinema doesn’t have many family dynasties like the Sheens or the Douglases, but it does have father-and-son duo Jan
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