The annulment of all sentences against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a sign of what is happening in Latin America. The ultra-conservative right-wingers in power in recent years have fallen one after another. Pierre Lebret * After heir victories, boosted by “law-fare” against opposition leaders, they resumed […]
In Focus
In Focus
Meditation on desire
Popular culture enjoins us to follow our desires, to pursue our dreams. But is it sufficient? This can be considered exteriorly and interiorly. Steve Latham Exteriorly, we must ask: Do we really want what we want? It is a commonplace observation that capitalism creates desires, for objects and […]
Misrepresenting women in Greek mythology
The Amazons, an all-female, barbarian tribe of mythological warriors, fascinated the ancient Greeks. Ubiquitous in art –only representations of Heracles appear more often on vase paintings– they appear battling with Greeks in sculpted scenes on classical temples. Sean Sheehan Natalie Haynes, in “Pandora’s jar”, wonders why a male-dominated […]
Corona Virus: ‘cruel necessity’?
The current coronavirus pandemic can be coped with much better if there is a system of meaning ‘from above’, rather than merely ‘from below’. Nigel Pocock The ultimate expression of men and women, is their minds. The paradox is that we have to play the role of God […]
Laughter: the infallible remedy
I am – badly – plagiarizing this formidable title from the magazine ‘Selecciones’ from the Readers Digest that I read during my childhood. . Armando Orozco Tovar . I am killing myself laughing right now at remembering the practice of covering these magazines in leather and hiding them; at what […]
















