These are strange times, throughout the world… people are dying more than ever from strange diseases; others, who were not prepared for these torments, are faced with unemployment, poverty, and hunger; even entire industrial sectors are on the verge of…
Everybody remembers the cartoon by Tex Avery, in which a character being chased by another runs off the edge of a cliff. However, because of momentum, the character keeps running and momentarily floats in the air, preoccupied by being pursued…
Football may seem like a trivial topic to discuss when there are so many other very serious things that are happening. The sport, however, which is really popular, has always been a sort of mirror that reflects current issues at…
We are not on lockdown solely because of the pandemic. We are locked down by the pandemic. It does not just lock us in one place; it locks us in mentally: it is impossible for many of us to talk…
What do Cato the Elder, Voltaire, and Pierre Mendes France have in common? All three, like many other politicians and intellectuals around the world, understood that for an idea to gain traction, it had to be repeated over and over…
A self-induced crisis, the greatest in a century; deliberately triggered by almost all of humanity to save lives because only isolation could protect them. A crisis with immense costs: hundreds of millions of jobs lost or threatened; the disappearance of…
We are only at the beginning of this crisis, in all of its dimensions, and particularly on the economic and social fronts. Many sectors, such as tourism, transportation and entertainment, will only recover in a very long time; many jobs…
For centuries, the main concern of women and men has been to conquer new freedoms in either the formal or real senses. It is how, through struggles, democracies and human rights were created—though in far too few places in the…
One has to be really blind to not see that increasingly darker clouds are forming in the skies over democracies. And that the 2020 decade could become the decade of universal collapse of these democracies. There is not a single…
