A dialogue between essayist and journalist Matěj Metelka and leading Czech thinker Pavel Barša—on thought, politics, and his intellectual lives—which follows up on their book-length interview of the same name.

Pavel Barša was born into a Communist family; in the 1980s, he was active in alternative cultural circles, and after 1989, he helped establish the fields of political science and international relations in the Czech Republic. In addition, he has consistently commented on current political and global events and written books in which he was often among the first to introduce topics such as multiculturalism, feminism, and postcolonialism to the Czech context.

“Barša has been and remains many things in life—a devout communist, a musician, a pub intellectual, an academic comprador, an imaginary Jew, a political philosopher… Above all, however, he is a distinctive and original thinker who has been influencing the domestic intellectual scene for several decades. Thus, as this book-length interview with Pavel Barša depicts both past and present aspects of his life, it also charts the evolution of political and social thought in the Czech Republic, the global crisis of liberalism, and the challenges posed by geopolitical conflicts and climate change."&(from the book As Usual, I Was Looking for Some Third Way)