The people feed off symbolism. That is why the image of a woman emerging from the mud, or a child saved by a humble rescuer, lingers in the mind’s eye. They symbolise a broken society, fractured by a social regime that is currently in decline throughout the world. Gustavo […]
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Lasso and the circumstances of a tragedy
Can the handling of the crisis unleashed by the recent earthquake in Ecuador change Guillermo Lasso’s image in the midst of the widespread rejection of his administration, and while the National Assembly processes a possible political trial against him for crimes against public administration? The earthquake on 18th March […]
Ethnic nationalism
The lynching of Black Americans that claimed the lives of thousands of known victims bears testimony to the hideous depths of racism. Sean Sheehan The castration, burning or other mutilations that could preface an actual lynching point to some fear of Black sexuality in the psyche of those […]
The materialist, the young-earther, and the heretic in conversation
They met together: The young-earther, the materialist-zoologist, and the evolutionary heretic. Matzoo and Young (as we will call them), soon found that they had much in common, greatly to their surprise. There was, of course, much tail-chasing and verbal slanging on the way. Nigel Pocock They both agreed, […]
The life of the wife of Bath
The “first ordinary woman in English literature” – a lovely way of introducing the Wife of Bath from Chaucer’s “The Canterbury tales” – “not a virginal princess or queen, not a nun, witch, or sorceress, not a damsel in distress”. Sean Sheehan The Wife of Bath is a […]
















