Politics

I want to be clear about something before we start. I do not hate Americans. I have never met an American in person. I am not qualified to comment on what they are like as individuals, in their homes, with their families. I am sure many of them are perfectly decent people. This article is about the American economic system, American companies, and the American government. It is about the practical reality of what happens when you, as a European consumer, hand your money over to an American corporation. Or when you, as a European company, try to work with American infrastructure. I have arrived at a simple conclusion after years of personal experience and observation: I will not buy American if I can avoid it. Here is why. ...

Copyright is a concept that most software developers interact with on a daily basis, whether they are conscious of it or not. Every repository, every library, every framework… they all come with a licence that dictates what you can and cannot do with them. This is so baked into modern software development that few stop to question the underlying premise: should code be copyrightable at all? For a primer on what copyright is and how software licensing works in practice, see my earlier article: Licensing for Beginners. The short version is this: the moment you create a work, all rights are automatically reserved to you under the Berne Convention. You then use a licence to grant others permission to use, modify, or distribute that work. But this entire framework rests on an assumption that deserves scrutiny, meaning the assumption that code is a creative work deserving of copyright protection in the first place. ...

I am a proud European, but, a lot more than that, I am also a citizen of the Republic of Poland. Watching what is happening west of us is difficult to put into words. When watching nations, that were formerly the greatest empires to have ever existed in human history – The British Empire, The German Empire, The French Empire – systematically orchestrating their own annihilation, you cannot just accept that at face value. You are forced to rationalise it. You invent comforting lies to explain why your neighbors are systematically eradicating their own kind. You have to do that, since they are your neighbours, who are nice. To readily accept and dispassionately observe their downfall would be a cruel betrayal of our good and long-lasting relationships. ...

On 10th September 2025, a shooter climbed onto the roof of a building at Utah State University, Utah, USA. He was positioned approximately 200 metres away from Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Charlie sat in his iconic ‘Prove Me Wrong’ tent, seated in front of a table, where he would invite university students to debate him. It was one of the many ordinary tours that Charlie was well-known for, having done them since the age of 18. ...

As far back as 1972, Norway had a referendum on whether or not to join the European Union (EU). For reference, this was so far back that the EU didn’t even exist yet. It was only the Economic European Community (EEC) back then. Narrowly, the population voted about 53% nay. There was another referendum, a lot more recently, in 1994. That time, it was even more narrow, with 52% voting nay. Sweden, which had referendum at around the same time, voted 53% yay instead, and became a member of the EU. This raises a perfectly obvious question: was the Norwegian public wise in these two landmark decisions? Clearly it is not a cut-and-dry issue, as all that decided the outcome was only about 100,000 people. If 100,000 more people were convinced that EU would be to Norway’s benefit – rather than to its detriment – Norway would have been an EU member in either 1972 or 1994. Let’s examine this more closely. ...

My name is Maxwell Jensen. I was born and raised in Norway, but my story begins in Poland. My father was a naval officer from Gdańsk who sought asylum in Norway in 1986, and my mother immigrated from Zambrów in 1996. The goal here is to share some insights that might be relevant to Norwegians, or really, anyone who finds multicultural exchanges interesting. We all know we live in a world of global exchange – not just of goods, but of ideas and culture. With this short essay, I hope to offer some insights and constructive criticism that everyone can use to expand their worldview. While I don’t believe that simply importing people of fundamentally incompatible cultures constitutes a valid social policy, I do believe every culture offers at least one thing that can widen our perception of the world for the better. And let me be clear, this is a two-way street: my life in Norway has had a formative, profoundly positive impact on how I view the world, which I will get into later. ...