The European Union is a contemporary manifestation of Kant’s fantasy of universal peace. Long condemned as chimerical, his vision is increasingly being realised in Europe. Steve Latham This project of the imagination is, of course, fragile, ever likely to disintegrate into atavistic warfare, as in the Balkans at […]
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Forward the fracture!
Daniel Rodgers’ book “Age of fracture” argues that the consensus underlying western society has become fractured, and any notion of cultural unity lost. Steve Latham He traces this back to roots within both conservative and liberal thinking in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. Both Right and […]
The wickedness of “media bashing”
One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, false evidence and generally all the attacks provided by the civil and penal codes, are especially hostile when they happen in public, without boundaries or possible restraint. Fernando Buen […]
Jose Marti and his “Night from the other side of his dreams”
The little book jumps into my hands in a mysterious way early in the morning: It is the Jose Marti’s campaign dairy on the way from Cap-Haïtien to Dos Ríos, published in 1978 by the Social Sciences publishing house, La Habana, Cuba. Armando Orozco Tovar There is […]
The other earthquakes
“On the 31st of August of a year that I shall not say, successive earthquakes will destroy Santa Fe…” Francisco Margallo Armando Orozco Tovar The Earth is an animal that shakes. It is a living being that has been turning since the moment of its known existence, and […]
















