The Plurinational State of Bolivia reactivates its economic indicators barely a year after the return to power of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), following the right-wing coup d’état in October 2019. Data disclosed by official sources demonstrate it, in the midst of the opposition’s bid to destabilise the country […]
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Feeling the city
The technocratic, managerial ethos of Twentieth Century urban planning left out human value and scale. Steve Latham But opposed, for instance, to Robert Moses’ schemes for New York, arose Jane Jacobs, who reasserted the role of the local, small-scale, and human, for city-living. But it’s debateable whether she […]
A divine answer to evil?
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-76) stated the issue quite bluntly: If God is almighty, and love, then it is impossible for evil to exist. Should we then agree with Charles Baudelaire, “if there is a God, then he is the devil”? Nigel Pocock David Hume was a […]
On books and reading
Recently, I had a dream, in which I visited a used book store. I was in the Science Fiction section; and with me was a small child. When, suddenly, I was in the story, fighting a huge caterpillar monster! Steve Latham This is how reading gave me an […]
Fiction in Spanish
“Some time ago I got arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder”. The opening sentence of “Capsule” by Mateo García Elizondo cannot fail to grab the reader’s attention in a story that becomes a meditative take on existence, occasioned by a prisoner who is launched into space to […]