Andrzej Nowak Why "Arcana"?
Professor Andrzej Nowak, the chief editor of the conservative Polish journal "Arcana" shares his thoughts about the mission, history and contemporary significance of the journal. Among the more important tasks of "Arcana" Nowak singles out intellectual support for the notion of patriotism free of xenophobia and oikophobia (hostility towards one's own national group); analysis of the Communist heritage in contemporary Poland; search for Poland's place on the European cultural map, specifically with reference to the concept of "Eastern Europe."