When talking recently about the pandemic that has hit the world, my daughter remembered a health scare that she experienced where medicine for the soul as opposed to for the money made all the difference to a speedy recovery. Nubia Piqueras Grosso Deeply troubled by the disturbing images […]
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Containing our fears
The River Thames is empty. Tour boats lie moored in the centre of the estuary. The only moving vessels are police launches patrolling for transgressors against lockdown, and the drug smugglers. Steve Latham In our “splendid isolation” (a term coined to describe Britain’s diplomatic policy of avoiding entangling […]
Yearning for an absolute
If science can describe reality as it ‘really is’, any such description would be transcendental, independent of our observations and partial perspectives. Sean Sheehan The philosopher Meillassoux uses fossils as proof that we can access a reality unrelated to human knowledge. We are grounded in historically-determined horizons of […]
The fear of Covid-19 is overcome with science and love
Carlos Tello Ponce, an Ecuadorian doctor who applies knowledge learnt in Cuba whilst fighting coronavirus in his homeland. Sinay Céspedes Moreno Every morning, the family medicine specialist attends the IESS South Quito hospital, in the capital, to attend to possible carriers of the new strain of coronavirus. But […]
The cheats and lies of fashion
Camouflaged as democratic, we are living in times of false liberty, where each person feels free to dress and be… different, but nowadays ‘different’ is just an adjective: everyone is the same, and if they didn’t conform they would be different… Isabel Soto Mayedo In an era […]
















