That education and exposure to various ideas expand one’s view and teach them to think critically and independently is already well understood. Award-winning journalist and a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Amanda Coakley explains how a new approach to education in Romania affords students a better understanding of why …
by Roxana Cazan 
How the Far Right Shield Themselves from Reality It’s always a puzzle when you see people supporting candidates and parties that logic dictates, they should not. France just had legislative elections on Sunday, July 7, and the New Popular Front left coalition in France finished first, President Emmanual Macron’s center coalition finished second, and the far-right National …
by Calvin Mouw 
The 2024 Romanian Community Summit took place on Saturday, May 25 at the Logos Christian Academy in Chicago. It was a great program with a tremendous turnout. I highly recommend you attend next year’s event if you can make it. You can see videos of the conference on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/KE8PGapaMLc The highlight of the …
by Calvin Mouw 
“The enshrinement of the right to abortion in the French Constitution has been a historic demand of feminist organizations since I can remember. But for the past decade, this demand has had little resonance with the French population. Many felt that the Constitution would not have to be invoked to defend this right. I would …
by Calvin Mouw 
“The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.” ― Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke …
by Calvin Mouw 
In 2023, the Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Claudia Goldin for her research on the gender pay gap. The difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce is referred to as “the gender pay gap.”. This is an important and interesting area of research for numerous reasons, and it …
by Calvin Mouw 
Alina Șerban performed “The Best Child in the World,” a one-woman play sponsored by ARCHER at the Romanian Community Center on June 21 in Chicago. Alina is Roma, she grew up poor in Bucharest, she is a woman, and yet, she is a successful actor, writer, and director. People watch her films and come to …
by Calvin Mouw 
When I go to work out (be kind), I walk past a house where an excerpt from this quote below is painted on a chair in the front yard. The quote is from Kurt Vonnegut’s fifth novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Eliot Rosewater is talking to his wife Sylvia about how he must baptize …
by Calvin Mouw 
Self examination on the Redline I was waiting at a Redline stop on the north side of Chicago for a train to the Loop. The train arrives, I notice a car with seat openings at one end, I get on and quickly understand why. I see a “homeless person” sleeping across several seats, a common …
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