“Decadence” is usually a term used by right-wing people to castigate individuals and societies with whom they disagree, and whose lifestyle they disapprove of. Steve Latham The arts are frequently said to be in decline, embodied in paradoxical trends: a lack of originality and repetition of the past, […]
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Going nowhere
Michael Marder’s pocket-sized “Philosophy for passengers” is the perfect book to fit in your backpack or wheelie when making a journey. Sean Sheehan You are, at some stage, consumed by the exhilaration or dread that is prompting the travel but this book, acting as both distraction and therapy, […]
Reporting violence
Journalists and photographers of court reporting in Mexico decided to show their work to the public from another stage: an exhibition room where the graphic testimony of crime and death have their own voice. The exhibition will be open until 16 September. The exhibition is called “Sweet Violence” and […]
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have dropped out of the country’s school system. Yosbel Bullaín According to official data, only 68.2 per cent of schools in the land of pine trees had safe drinking […]
Suicide, an aesthetic demand
Suicide has its influence on Catholicism, something that the Church paradoxically denies, as being the doctrine of death itself. Armando Orozco Tovar At the age of twenty, a young university student committed suicide. All of a sudden, he decided to cut with his own hand the absurd thread […]
















