Paweł Skała-Piękoś is a Polish publisher and editor based in Poznań. He worked in IT marketing across the European and American spheres from 2018 to 2025, and since 2022 has been running a boutique publishing house focused on civic and grassroots books. He is co-author of "Liberalizm. Historia walki o wolność" (Liberalism: A History of the Fight for Freedom, 2024). His thinking and writing focus on questions at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and human-AI collaboration. Email: pawel.skala.piekos [at] gmail.com
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś The Polish noble republic as a laboratory for anyone who wants to imagine America under the Confederacy; and why a liberal owes no apology to those who call privilege freedom In 1770, Pitt the Elder warned the House of Lords that England’s freeholders risked being “reduced to a condition baser than the…
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś Thomas R. Wells wrote in 3 Quarks Daily in June that nearly everyone hates neoliberalism, and that we will miss it all the same once it is gone. My own position is simpler and probably less elegant: I even like it. I am thirty-four, I am Polish, and my whole adult life has fallen…
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś For a long time, fluent, competent form was a social marker of class. Whoever could write in the dominant language, summarise difficult texts, sound academic, edit their own thought, and move through institutional codes started higher up: not always because they understood more, but because they had a better command of the…
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś On method This essay was extracted from roughly two months of work in collaboration with multiple AI systems. The methodology is not a disclosure I add reluctantly — it is the condition under which an essay of this kind could exist at all. The work began not with AI as a topic,…