El Mito de Sísifo de Albert Camus da comienzo a este breve ensayo: “juzgar que la vida vale o no vale la pena de que se la viva es responder a la pregunta fundamental de la filosofía”. Esta pregunta a la que se refiere Camus es una que lleva vertebrando el pensamiento del ser humano…
El 16 de febrero de 2017, Daniel Iriarte publicaba en el Confidencial su artículo “Bienvenidos a la Nueva Guerra Fría”. Con un estilo informativo, pero con un fondo alarmista, tintado de urgencia y llamada a la acción por parte de la sociedad española y occidental, Iriarte no solo está buscando informar, sino posicionar a Rusia…
Hong Kong and Arunachal Pradesh as double-edged swords in China’s national identity project Introduction The British Empire, with its colonies and mandates in the five continents, can be considered one of the largest and most important ones in history, not only due to its territorial expansion but also due to the political and cultural influence…
Article I – Can Freud’s taboos fix a broken democracy? “On Niuē, a coral island in the Pacific Ocean, monarchy actually came to an end because nobody was willing to undertake the responsible and dangerous office.” Now substitute the word ‘monarchy’ for ‘democracy.’ Is this more familiar to you now? Let me bring another example….
“Insufficient data for meaningful answer” is the response that, time and time again, all those who ask the supercomputer of their time, first Multivac, then Microvac until they reach the Cosmic AC, about the inevitable reversal of the universe: entropy. For several weeks now I’ve been wanting to share a couple of ideas that haunt…
“A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood […]. A day will come when we shall see […] the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.” Just months before Victor Hugo’s speech at the…
