While discussing contemporary sexual mores, ‘consent’ seems to be the only moral absolute, the only taboo still worth defending. Steve Latham J.G. Ballard, interviewed during the 1970s, predicted that in the future, there would no moral strictures on sexual activity. “Moral perversion” and “psychopathology” would be outmoded terms. […]
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Face masks, a discussion still on the table in the U.S.
With more than 150,500 dead and almost 5,000,000 cases of Covid-19, the controversial debate about the mandatory use of face masks in the United States is an implausible situation in the eyes of experts. Wearing a face mask is considered one of the easiest and most direct ways of […]
Pandemic and The Plague
Shopping in the local supermarket, wearing my face mask, I feel like a criminal or spy, undercover, lurking around the shelves, trying to stay socially-distanced, out of people’s personal space. Steve Latham This is the future-present. Even with restrictions being eased, we have been marked, permanently, or at […]
Timely books for children
Two of these books urge young readers to be outside their homes, discovering and enjoying the natural world around them. The other two celebrate self-esteem and black history. Sean Sheehan “I ate Sunshine for breakfast” (7-14 year-olds) justifies its glorious title by bringing botany alive. Informative text and […]
Return the gold to Venezuela
On July 2nd 2020 British Judge Nigel Teare, with regard to a Central Bank of Venezuela litigation for 31 tons of gold entrusted to the Bank of England to be returned to the Venezuelan state, issued a verdict in favour of ‘interim president” Juan Guaidó. Francisco Dominguez* The […]
















