Published by the Institute for Strategic Solutions (ISR)

  • Folklore
    The undead are dying

    A spectre is haunting Slovenia — the spectre of Halloween. What it drives out are the country's own ghosts, who come with far better stories.

  • Screen time
    Out of their depth

    We guard children from every scrape in the playground, then hand them a phone that opens onto a world we cannot supervise.

  • Tete-a-Tete
    The long game

    Historian Aleš Šafarič runs Slovenia's Sports Museum without a permanent home. He would rescue the collection records before any medal.

  • Tete-a-Tete
    No easy promises

    Laura Plaku trained as a lawyer before running Albania's investment agency. She listens before making a case and prefers facts to flourishes.

  • The in-crowd
    Who gets to be 'one of us'?

    We expect minorities to prove they are integrating, but rarely ask ourselves whether we are allowing them to belong.

  • Tete-a-Tete
    No second act

    Ajša Vodnik went from co-owning a television channel to running AmCham Slovenia and chairing AmChams in Europe. She does not believe in second acts.

  • Growing pains
    Let your children screw up

    A generation spared every mistake will eventually inherit problems it has never been allowed to practise solving.

  • Urban craft
    Hub for creativity

    Center Rog is establishing itself as a unique venue on the European map of creative hubs, bringing together a wide range of production laboratories within a single space.

  • Beyond politics
    The creative class

    The universality of art is unconditional. The same applies to contemporary creative achievements, whether we have in mind verbal artistic creations or silent, figurative works of art.

  • Hemingway's playground
    Leisure with a historic twist: Active isolation in the Soča Valley

    Where soldiers once marched through alpine mists, today's travelers arrive to engage with the landscape on entirely different terms. The Soča Valley is the home of the modern holiday.

  • The monarchy's best-kept secret
    Creating memories on an industrial scale

    The King's Birthday is not about a date of birth. It is a constitutional celebration, timed for good weather and designed to create beautiful memories at scale.