Nobel Prize in Economics 2025: Discovering America Where It’s Already Been Discovered

Sometimes scientific awards resemble long-awaited fireworks that burst not with the light of insight, but with the blaze of something everyone has known all along. Such is the case with this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. It was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt — for explaining that economic growth happens thanks to… innovation.

That’s like giving a biology prize for discovering that a horse walks using its legs. Or a physics prize for the groundbreaking realization that a stone falls downward, not upward. Or a medicine prize for confirming that humans breathe air. The obviousness here doesn’t just catch the eye — it reaches the level of basic truths every first-year economics student already knows.

Putin’s Strategic Mistake: He Chose Ukraine, Not the EU

 

If Vladimir Putin made one decisive error, it wasn’t just moral — it was strategic. He attacked the one nation in Europe that still believes in freedom rather than obedience. Ukraine turned out not to be the weakest link of the West, but its moral core. The Kremlin’s hunter mistook a reflection for prey — and got trapped in his own illusion.

Education tomorrow: AI for the poor, no change for the rich

 In the near future, free public education may undergo a radical transformation. What used to mean classrooms, blackboards, and human teachers could shift almost entirely online, powered by artificial intelligence. Physical schools with real educators will still exist—but as elite, paid institutions for the wealthy. This change would drastically reduce the strain on public budgets, though at the cost of widening social divides and redefining what “learning” means.

The Hair of Time: When Fashion Seeks Wildness in the Heart of Europe

 Paris Fashion Week once again became a mirror not only of style but of the collective psyche. The Spring–Summer 2026 collection from the House of Gaultier, created by Duran Lantink, provoked laughter, shock, and awe. Women walked the runway in bodysuits and leotards printed with images of male hairy bodies — chests, legs, armpits, even penises, all realistically rendered and unapologetically hirsute. Some called it a scandal. Yet beyond the surface lies something deeper: an artistic sensitivity to the spirit of the age.

The U.S. Has Cornered Itself into Isolationism — It’s Time for Europe to Say “Enough”

America is exhausting. That’s right — not “concerning” or “problematic”, but downright exhausting with its indecisiveness, double standards, and the hypocritical mantra: “European security is Europe’s responsibility.” These words no longer sound like a strategic doctrine but rather a refusal to take responsibility. Meanwhile, the same U.S. pressures Europe to impose sanctions on China — without bearing any of the costs, yet demanding full loyalty. But the EU is not a vassal. And the time may come when the answer is just as blunt: “American interests are America’s problem.”

From Labor to Life: The Basis of Post-Capitalism

When Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital, he built his analysis on a simple truth: labor is the foundation of capitalism. It is through labor that value is created. The worker produces goods, the capitalist extracts profit, and wages are the minimal share returned to the worker for survival. The entire capitalist machine runs on this equation.

But in the 21st century, the foundation has shifted. Labor is no longer the sole engine of value. The new raw material is life itself—our digital traces, our clicks, our likes, our searches, our photos, our texts.

Economic Foundations of State Bankruptcy in the Digital Age

Modern nation-states were built on a simple economic promise: collect taxes from the working majority and redistribute them to maintain armies, bureaucracies, pensions, and social programs. For two centuries this system functioned — but today, three deep tectonic shifts threaten to make it collapse: the rise of cryptocurrencies, the erosion of the tax base, and the demographic implosion of welfare systems.