Far from being a society of mature people, western culture encourages mass narcissism and infantilisation, in ever-increasing numbers. Nigel Pocock What is ‘community’? It is a noun, and has a verbal form, ‘communication’. This gives us the essence of a ‘community’, for it is nothing more or less […]
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Latin American identity is multicultural
A Latin-American is someone who belongs to, or is descended from Latin America, the conjunction of countries which mostly speak Spanish or Portuguese, without excluding the indigenous languages. Claudio Chipana We are Latin-Americans because we come from that great region south of the Rio Bravo, that region which […]
The other Germany
Spy movies evoke East Berlin as a sinister place from where people try to escape, a dystopian enclave with a dreaded security service, the Stasi. Sean Sheehan What tends to get forgotten is the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) the country born in 1949 and where close to […]
The ideological control of violent States
The Nazis hid their crimes behind the famous legend that ‘Work makes free’. Indeed! But both agreed that extermination was the only suitable outcome. Nigel Pocock It has long fascinated historians and others how such an apparently sophisticated society as ancient Rome could also be so barbaric, an […]
The horrible marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Knowing what is going on between two people who are living together is fraught with difficulties per se and when the couple happen to be Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, a relationship that ended with her suicide, the problem of secure knowledge reaches an impasse. Sean Sheehan We […]
















