The only possible escape route for Brazil is to make sure that, in 2022 at the latest, the hellish nightmare of Bolsonarismo is democratically brought to its end

The truth is that statues are a thing of the past only as long as they stand quietly in squares, as indifferent to us as we are to them

When statues come under assault, they leap from the past to become part of our present

Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation

The things it allows us to see and the way in which they are interpreted and assessed will determine the future of the civilization in which we live. Unlike other apparitions, these ones are real and are here to stay

Since the 1980s—as neoliberalism established itself as the leading version of capitalism, which in its turn became increasingly dependent on the logic of the financial sector—the world has been living in a permanent state of crisis

The underlying idea is that no matter how unbearable the experience of aging, it is always more bearable when it is shared

What is the potential knowledge to be derived from the coronavirus pandemic?

The powers that have produced the aging of the world and turned it into the industry that ensures their perpetuation will find themselves confronted with the effrontery to which their own effrontery has given rise. Will they ever age?

By 1000 Words/Shutterstock.com Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections,” as…