Articles et publications
A Lonely Voice of Despair
By Leonidas Donskis
During my last visit to Washington, D.C., where I participated in a timely and good conference on the historical memory and justice in Eastern Europe at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, I had a pleasant morning read of newspapers. Suddenly my attention was caught by the letter of a Russian journalist published in The Wall Street Journal (Friday, November 12, 2010).(Tęsti...)
Old news from Lithuania, or politics of willful forgetting
Lithuania is bound to confront one more challenge that arises from its domestic political clashes and cleavages. The center populist Labor Party, and the no less populist but rightwing the Order and Justice Party, have decided to merge, thus forming what they perceive as the third major political party in Lithuania capable of sharing the power structure and competing with the conservative Homeland Union and leftwing Social Democratic Party.(Tęsti...)
From the Revolution of Dilettantes and to the Managerial Revolution
By Leonidas Donskis
The Lithuanian writer Ricardas Gavelis – an iconic though perhaps neglected author in his own country who was especially active in the 1990s once coined the term “the epoch of dilettantes” to describe the explosive proliferation of universities and colleges, both public and private, whose number sky-rocketed almost immediately after the country became independent. Without a shadow of a doubt, one could assume that this reflected a far wider tendency characteristic of the former Soviet “republics” in general. (Read more..)
