The Seven Deadly Sins 3.0

Josette Baer is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at UCM Trnava, Slovakia, and adjunct professor of political theory with a focus on Central and Eastern European political thought at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. She has published several books and peer-reviewed studies about Czechoslovak, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, and Macedonian political thought and politics.

Adis Merdzanovic is a Junior Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He graduated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was previously a Swiss Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C..

Jabbar Moradi was born into a Muslim family in Iran. He now lives in the Czech Republic. He holds a Ph.D. in environmental sciences (2018), with a focus on the remediation of mining and quarrying extraction sites. He has studied key religious, environmentalist, national, and political ideologies, taking in their spectrum of thinking, both mainstream and extremist. Jabbar is concerned that the tradition of clear-sighted, scientific rationalism in the West is being undermined by irrational ideologies.