With only five months to go before the end of his term in office, Chile’s president is in the midst of turbulence, under investigation by the judiciary and facing impeachment by the National Congress. Carmen Esquivel Sebastian Pinera faces a constitutional accusation over the Pandora’s Papers scandal that […]
In Focus
In Focus
What I do is me: for that I came
One of the paradoxes of quantum physics is that the reality of a particle is determined by it being observed by a consciousness. Sean Sheehan Prior to its observation, reality is a fluid multiplicity -quantum fluctuations brought about by the collapse of the wave function (no, I do […]
Bolivia raises from the ashes after the coup
The Plurinational State of Bolivia reactivates its economic indicators barely a year after the return to power of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), following the right-wing coup d’état in October 2019. Data disclosed by official sources demonstrate it, in the midst of the opposition’s bid to destabilise the country […]
Feeling the city
The technocratic, managerial ethos of Twentieth Century urban planning left out human value and scale. Steve Latham But opposed, for instance, to Robert Moses’ schemes for New York, arose Jane Jacobs, who reasserted the role of the local, small-scale, and human, for city-living. But it’s debateable whether she […]
A divine answer to evil?
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-76) stated the issue quite bluntly: If God is almighty, and love, then it is impossible for evil to exist. Should we then agree with Charles Baudelaire, “if there is a God, then he is the devil”? Nigel Pocock David Hume was a […]